Update

As some of you may have heard, Fintan has been in hospital since Sunday morning. Don't worry though, he came home today and has actually been bouncing around his hospital bed since about Sunday lunchtime.

We took Fintan into Wycombe hospital after his temperature went very high on Sunday morning. He seemed really well in the morning, after suffering with a cold for a few days, he was smiling and giggling as usual and ate all his breakfast with the usual gusto, but shortly after he became lethargic and non-responsive. At the hospital, he soon picked-up, but nevertheless it seemed Fintan had an infection somewhere so the doctors needed to keep him in. They checked his blood counts and found he was neutropenic (when his body can't fight infections itself) so they started him on three different antibiotics. Thankfully, the results of some blood cultures came in today which showed nothing had grown and this meant two of the antibiotics could be dropped and that Fintan and Fiona could come home.

Despite the recent infections, and losing a bit more hair, Fintan really is doing well. He's really interacting with us, and enjoys a good game of peek-a-boo. He's no longer a baby and is becoming more of a boy, which is great to see considering everything he's going through. Fiona's taken a couple of video clips of him recently which I will try and upload over the next few days so you can see what I mean.

Fintan is due to have his 5th cycle of chemo on Tuesday next week; we'll let you know how he gets on shortly after then.