Returned to the hospital for what turned out to be another routine visit. The only concern I had was still regarding my two forefingers and the herpes that the doctors had diagnosed that was causing the internal haemorrhaging. My right finger seemed pretty fine and hadn't deteriorated, but the patch on my left finer appeared to have grown a little and spread to the side of the forefinger.

The dermatologist was great as he came up to visit me on the ward at fairly short notice to have a look, expecting the finger to be hanging off by some skin. He wasn't surprised by the way it appeared and explained that it's appearance, whilst not 10/10 would take some time to improve - several weeks. The important factor at the moment is to stop the spread of the virus and the small blisters that also characterise cold sores which the drug has appeared to have halted.

Apart from the finger problems the bloods were improving, with the notable improvements being with the white cells counts as happened last week. The haemoglobin will take several months to get close to what my levels were before the transplant, so I'm not concerned that they are still around the 10 mark at 9.9. The WBC was 2.9, neutrophils 2.4 and platelets 105. In fact the neutrophils have now recovered from the losses and are now the highest they've been post BMT which is encouraging. I also managed to put on 1kg in the last week so I know Dad will certainly be feeling relieved. It's also helped me to feel better to having that much more energy so I'll continue to try and get the pies in. Next appointment is next week as per usual. Just three more weeks to go till the 100 day barrier is broken....