Well - after a further 12 day stint in Oxford, Michael is coming home today. Let's hope it's for a bit longer. Michael's scope/biopsy last week showed that there is no improvement with the rejection, although no worse. He started his new drug yesterday which is to stop the antibodies which he is producing. They have now actually sent his latest results to Miami for a second opinion. They are of the same thinking and believe that nothing more needs to be done in hospital and it's just a case of regular blood tests. With such a new operation there are no definitive answers but I guess a second opinion from somewhere that has undertaken so many more bowel transplants is positive.
He'll have to return this Friday and next Wednesday. Both of which are inconvenient days - my Dad's 80th and our baby's 12th, but better than him being in Oxford over the holiday period and having to schlepp there the whole time.
Obviously excited about the 'homecoming' but very apprehensive now having experienced it once and then it all 'falling apart'. If I remember correctly, he came out of UCH last year the same day as the kids finished school - bit deja vu.
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