Brendon is still running a fever on and off. It mostly hits him in the afternoon and evening. It has been that way since Friday. His white blood cell counts are dropping and it could be from the chemo or he could be fighting an infection. They have taken blood cultures 3 times to see if anything grows. The first one came back negative so we are just waiting on the last 2. They usually take 48 hours to fully grow and the last one was taken last night. They have put Bren on a general antibiotic to try to fight infection. He has also been taking tylenol through the night to keep his fever down. The first night it went up to 102.5 and last night the highest it went was 101.5. So the bad news is that we have to stay in the hospital until he can go 24 hours without a fever and his white counts go up. So it could be 2 more days here. The good news is that Brendon is feeling better. His mouth doesn't hurt as much and the sores on the corners of his mouth are healing. The oral pain medicine is working out very well. Yesterday he only needed the pain pills 3 times throughout the entire day. This morning he woke up feeling really good. He will be able to go outside for a little while today, which will be nice.. He is getting antibiotics every 8 hours so he is free from the iv pole during that time..

He's been keeping busy (when he's been feeling good) at the hospital. We have painted pumpkins, done a little homework and drawn lots of pictures. Last night we watched the movie Elf. We've seen it lots of times, but it never gets old. We laughed so much. We're trying to make the best of being in the hospital. Hopefully now that he's feeling better we'll be able to leave the room more and do more fun things to take his mind off not being home..

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