July 13, 2007

After spending 4 days in the ICU, Adrian got transferred back to the Paediatric Surgical Ward this morning. Baby needed to be held the whole day... Mama can't simply leave his eyesight, else he'd cry out really hard. He behaved the same as the last time he was out from the ICU in February. Adrian didn't throw up anymore and continued to take 30 ml of glucose water every 3-4 hours. Docs may increase his intake tomorrow if he is ok. Instead of harvesting baby's stem cells for his own Bone Marrow Transplantation which will take place in a few months time as Dr Ha mentioned, baby will use his own cord blood for the Transplantation! We didn't realize at the time that we'd end up using it this soon (or indeed use it) and we are glad we made the choice last year. Apparently we are also the first parents who requested cord blood retrieval. How sad....