Absolute zero

While the white blood cell count has bounced from 300 to 400 from yesterday, the neutrophils (another type of disease-fighting white blood cell) has hit zero. Niente.

This is a computer reading, so it could have some error, but there's pretty much zero immune system left in dad.

He's still on antibiotics (cipro right now) and 2 days into the blood stream infection test, no bacteria have grown, knock on Carl Wood. Temperature has come down to 97.2 without any fluids going into his blood. And most importantly, dad's spirits are high and his vitality continues to bounce from the Friday low.

More platelets are going in at the moment, and the Benadryl has knocked Carl out.