This morning Dr. Weinthal was very excited to see that after his platelet transfusion from yesterday, Cutler’s platelet count was up around 90K.  We had a huge spike to 34K a few days ago, but to spike to 90K was absolutely amazingly good news.  Also, yesterday Dr Weinthal mentioned that he looked at the blood work that contained a few white cells and so far all of the cells look to be good cells.  It’s hard to not get excited with all of this good news, but we need to be sure to stay grounded as his immune system is still very limited.  That being said, there is a potential that Cutler could be home the first week of January if he keeps going at this pace.  The plan is to now have Cutler off pain meds and steroids by the weekend and start to eliminate the many number of antibiotics he is on.  He has already stopped one of them as of today.  Also, by next week there will probably be an effort to get Cutler taking his meds orally.  This should be interesting and completely non pain free…for us.  🙂

Here is a video from this morning as Melanie and Cutler were playing peek-a-boo.