3 is a magic number

Tantalisingly within our grasp, Friday's Neutrophil count was 0.25, just short of the 0.3 that would have allowed Vicki to come home.

However, regardless of the level of these little critters, we now have to wait for a blood culture which will take 48 hours. Just to compound our frustrations, today we didn't get a Neutrophil figure because the lab chose not to test for this. Hey Path-Lab, not to worry, it's not like its important or anything, Vicki's only been in hospital since mid December, she's not desperate to get home or anything.

The snow doesnt help either, it just makes the whole business of getting to and from hospital more tricky. Global warming you say? Mmmm. We haven't had a winter like this since 1981 or 1963, so you would have thought it could have waited another year!

As ever, Vicki is quite well, just frustrated to still be here. My money is on Monday for a short period of home leave, so you can guarantee we'll get so much snow we'll be stranded here. Ah well such is life...