This morning the doctor came in and was very pleased at the blood work.  The white cell count was at 200 and the ANC was around 156.  I was a bit surprised at his exuberance as Cutler had a count of 200 about 10 days ago and asked if he was being positive to make up for making Melanie cry yesterday.  🙂  He said that he does think this is a sign that the graft is starting to work and we should see further growth over the next week.  Personally, I am holding off a bit as a skeptic considering we have had these counts before, but I am being a positive skeptic and patiently waiting.  Thank you to everyone for their continued comments, thoughts, and most importantly the prayers.

As for Cutler’s other progress, he continues to shine more and more every day.  He has also become more and more mischievous as the days progress.  He woke with a huge smile at 6:30 and I couldn’t just make him lie in his bed and so we played and played and played until Grammy got here to sit with him for the day.  His personality just continues to shine and he is really charming the nurses here as much as he did on the 6th floor.  One of his Christmas presents is a basketball hoop and so we have been working on his game…unfortunately he prefers to hang on the rim.