Yesterday, Ibrahim had his central line repaired by interventional radiology. They sutured the defect in his skin and hopefully the line can be kept for a couple of more weeks while his steroids are on board so that he doesn't need to be stuck for labs. Ibrahim's platelet count today is 91,000 which is essentially stable. We will proceed to reduce his dose of steroids one more time (decrease his evening dose to half of his current). So we'll continue with our weekly labs. In the meanwhile, he continues to have a low white count. We're going to hold off on his regular vaccinations for now, since if he has a fever because of his shots we wont be able to differentiate between a line infection or something else.
Our other challenge these days is keeping Ibrahim away from his big brother who has a cough/cold/fever. Poor Hamza is being quarantined in his bedroom!
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