Ben's Home!

Yay! What a difference a day makes! Ben's home!

His ANC is only 200 though and since he was able to get his last Rituximab treatment in the hospital his immune system is essentially non-existent so we have to be super careful (even more than usual!) to keep him away from germs. He was so happy to come home though.

What was keeping him in the hospital was a positive blood culture from Monday's draw. The repeat hadn't grown by today so that meant we wouldn't be getting a new PICC line (Ben's cracked and had to be taken out last week) placed for iv antibiotics. So that was really great news.

While he was in the hospital, his cheeks got really swollen and we discovered he had these two huge ulcer/abcess like things with a large white patch, one on each side. The left side is much bigger than the right but in both the swelling has come way down. There was lots of debate if we should biopsy them while we were there. The attending dr thought for sure they must be the PTLD. If so, Ben's oncologist said we'd have to start the chemo, but since they probably wouldn't start it with his ANC so low we decided to wait to biopsy it until his endoscopy and biopsy in one month.

Of course if the sores were to get much worse before then, we'd do something sooner. As it is, we are hospital-free until Tuesday when we go back to oncology for labs and a recheck. As always, thanks for the support and prayers!