Yo-yo'ing to Hospital

The last couple of weeks have been much of a yo-yo into hospital. First we had antibiotics that needed to be administered in the early hours of the morning. Last Friday Francesca needed a blood transfusion so that took place and then earlier this week I took young Miss F into Lewisham as I was slightly concerned about some bruising on her legs. At the time of writing they still are not sure what is causing the abnormal results in Francesca's bloods and want to take further bloods at GOS on Monday to do more specific tests to ascertain the cause. The general feeling is that it shouldn't be anything to worry about but, as you can imagine, it is important to cover all the bases.

The good news is that through all of this life has been relatively 'normal', Fran went to her friends birthday party last Friday afternoon and had an absolute ball. Today (as Stu is off) we all went to the beach and had a lovely day, the sun was shining and, despite popping into Lewisham Hospital a couple of times, we had a brilliant day. We are so lucky to have had the opportunity to get away as usually when Stuart is off Francesca ends up as an in-patient at Lewisham.

The next few weeks hold an important decision for us as to whether we will continue with the MRD trial. We are still undecided. We know that we want to minimise Fran's chemotherapy but at the same time we have concerns that should we do this she might relapse and may have benefitted from the second delayed intensification period. We will let you know what happens. What is good is that we trust our consultant and the staff at GOS so know we will be given the best possible advice and information. We were due to go to GOS next Tuesday but that has been deferred until the following week.

Photo's here show Francesca with Spencer our neighbour at Eva's birthday party last weekend; Fran with Stuart and then Charlie (on the only hot day in weeks).