Seth back to hospital

Things were going really well with Seth at home. He put on 3kg and was doing wonderfully. Then Thursday morning I decided to pack our suitcases away in the garage as I was feeling optimistic. Big mistake. I jinxed myself and late Thursday afternoon Seth developed a temperature. So off to hospital we went. Thankfully we got a room at about 1am and I didn't have to spend the night trying to get comfortable on a chair in emergency. His temperatures dropped and it looked like it might be just one of those annoying one-off temps. They started him on antibiotics and tested for everything - the usual procedure. They found CMV (same family as chicken pox virus) which he had about 2 years ago. This has been known to re-activate after a BMT. The test is very sensitive and sometimes brings a false positive so they do a secondary test to see how much of the virus is active. We only got the results late last night and the news is good. His number is 38 and it has to be 1000 before they need to treat the virus. This is great news because treatment is a month or more stay with some potent drugs iv.
What the doctors now think is that his GVHD is getting the upper hand and they may need to treat it a little more aggressively. I am now just waiting on what their plan is. He has all the symptoms of GVHD that he had before, just not so severe. He has the runs, nausea, tiredness and temps. They are talking about letting him go home tomorrow as long as his fevers stay away. His last fever was Saturday night and they have stopped the antibiotics today. So we wait and watch to see what his body does and with any luck we get out of here soon.