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March 23rd, 2008 - Enjoying a dose of normality…

Saturday March 22nd
 
After our daily visit to Nambour Hospital I finally talked Cameron into taking a walk along the beachfront in Mooloolaba. He has not wanted to go near the sea as he said it would torment him not been able to swim.  This is the thing he has missed the most – our visits to the beach and boogie boarding which he has come to love. Thankfully it was a little windy and the sea was choppy so it wasn’t too enticing. The boys enjoyed an ice-cream with Gran and I while we sat and watched the ocean. Cam enjoyed his little outing even though he would certainly have rather been out in the surf.  For the rest of the day the boys all played with their guns, computer games and just enjoyed being together again, Meanwhile I set about doing some of the mundane things that I used to find timresome, if not boring, but yet somehow it feel like a blessing to be able to do them again.  All in all our day was rather uneventful, pretty chilled and unusually close to normal – great. Read the rest of this entry »

March 21st, 2008 - Update from Leigh

Wednesday 19th March
Cameron had 2 days full of tests to see how the cancer is responding to the treatment and thankfully all were good results.  Our day on Wednesday began with an early run to Brisbane and me running up the hill with Cameron in the wheelchair. I nearly had to go to the cardiologist myself after that! The first test was the PET scan where he is injected with a radioactive sugar and he has to sit very still for an hour, then he goes in and has the Scan which takes 30 mins.  Been there done that before so he was okay with it all.  Then we rushed over to our normal Outpatients “spot” to have his line care done and bloods taken.  We had to see a doctor as well as his line had looked infected in the morning – good timing!  Read the rest of this entry »

March 17th, 2008 - Bouncing back

Another day another blood test. Thankfully today’s results were very good. I’m not at all surprised, between his visit to the healing rooms at the church on Saturday and a rampaging appetite all weekend a bounce back was on the cards. He is no longer neutropenic. His counts were not ideal, but good enough for school tomorrow, which will be a welcome departure from Runescape… If he goes to school tomorrow it will be his last visit for a couple of weeks as he’s in Brisbane for tests and maintenance stuff this coming Wednesday and Tuesday, then it’s Easter and the following Tuesday his third cycle of chemotherapy commences.  Read the rest of this entry »

March 15th, 2008 - No Reds Rugby – now it’s neutropenia

Cameron enjoyed getting his own back on me with the electric razor yesterday. Yes, my hair is all gone. Yikes! I do hope it grows back… Carlton had his hair coloured in front of the school at assembly and we have pictures and video of both events. However, these may never see the light of day here because so far we’ve only managed to move our sponsorship tally up by $100 with all of that coming from one very generous donor… Grateful thanks Ken and Shaz! Anyway, by late yesterday poor Owen was feeling rather left out of the hair games so this morning right after he got back from his first rugby game of the season he got his hair coloured too. Read the rest of this entry »

March 14th, 2008 - Bad hair [no hair] day

Shave for a Cure todayCameron went to Brisbane for his chemotherapy this past Wednesday, the day after attending school and that treatment went about as well as could reasonably be expected. Of course, this brought with it some suffering for Cameron with side-effects being mainly deep aches and pains. This time the pain is concentrated on his head, neck and all around his ribs, back and shoulders and so yesterday he didn’t even get out of his pyjamas the whole day. I can still barely imagine what it must feel like to be taking medicine that doesn’t actually make you feel better, but worse… 

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March 11th, 2008 - Back to school

Off to schoolCameron went back to school for the first time since being diagnosed, staying through the morning and returning again for a short while around pick-up time for a house meeting. I’m not sure who was more nervous about this first day back… Cameron, Leigh or the School leadership who have so graciously and enthusiastically undergone the crash course on what it means to have a pupil on the premises in Cameron’s condition – that is weak and biologically vulnerable. I’m pretty sure it was Leigh who was the most nervous, but as it happened everything went just fine. Read the rest of this entry »

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