Day +13: more of the same

Mina Brigitta continues to feel better, though she's nowhere near her normal self. She was really fussy all night, tossing and turning and thrashing around, most of it while trying to sleep on my lap in the chair. She was really cranky when I left this morning, probably because she was short on sleep but also because of the prednisone. Mom and Dad said she had another nice afternoon, though she wouldn't let Keri leave tonight. She seems to have some kind of pain or discomfort, because she wakes up whimpering at times, but she won't or can't tell us where it is. But still no fevers or nausea, and a 100% improvement over a couple of days ago. Her blood counts are slowly improving, but she did receive another platelet transfusion tonight.

The dermatologist stopped by late this afternoon to tell us that the skin biopsy had come back negative for both graft vs. host disease and engraftment syndrome. So he was guessing virus. But earlier the BMT team had seemed to rule out a virus because both the rash and the fever went away with prednisone. We would seem to be left with either a drug reaction or GVHD that didn't show up in the biopsy, but it will be interesting to see what the BMT team has to say tomorrow.