Update

Alex seems to have become nocturnal...he didnt let Eric get to sleep until 2am. When I got here to the hospital, Alex was sleeping. He woke up about a half an hour ago.

He spiked another fever about 10:30 last night, and after a dose of Tylenol, it seems to have stayed away.

The doctors are concerned about his lack of appetite, and will be giving him an appetite stimulant to see if we can get him to eat.

The doctors have also ordered a retina test to make sure there isn't any fungus hiding out in his eyes. With the amount of anti-biotics and anti-fungal medication, the poor guy has been having diareah. I was worried that they were going to stick us in issolation again, but his C-Diff screen came back negative, so at least that is resolved.

Alex's chest tube will be water sealed tonight, and hopefully removed tomorrow...again, I will believe it when I see it.

Alex's counts are only 55 this morning for his ANC, and plateletts are dropping. The good news is that there are more monocytes, which are precursor white cells. So, when do we get to come home? Hopefully soon, but at this point, who knows?