Georgie and Giggles

Georgie and Giggles, the Camp Quality mascot in the clinic last Monday week. Immediately after this was taken she went off to have a lumbar puncture and chemo under a general. That was followed by another 6 hours of chemo in the clinic. A very big day!

The following day she was not at all well and so we ended up in emergency and then admitted for 24 hours. Poor little thing was vomiting etc... The doctors did let us out the next evening as the Camp Quality puppet show came to school the following day so we really wanted to be there for that. It was excellent and Georgie really enjoyed it. The timing was very good for Georgie and the children as she is losing her hair (finally) and she has been away from school most of the last few weeks so the puppets explained to the children very clearly using the right language what it is all about and how it effects the lives of their friends......

We had a quiet weekend but when we came into hospital on Monday to start our last big week and a half of chemo, Georgie's blood counts were not good enough to start again. We went home but ended up coming back again that evening with a temp and another infection so we have been here since. We had a lovely long night in emergency. The only benefit of being an oncology patient is that you do not wait in the queue at triage and generally you get your own room as they need to be isolated from the other sick children. However, there were no free beds (rooms) in the hospital so we remained in ED until 3pm the following day. Georgie is improving. She has not had a temp for over 48 hours, the infection is clearing and her mood has improved alot!!! She is starting to eat little bits and knows that she must keep drinking if she wants to go home. The Play Therapist and Margaret, her teacher from the Westmead School both spent some time with her today and she and I have been doing lots of colouring in and even some school work. Busy day!! Sally Thompson came to visit us and brought goodies so that was wonderful especially for me.

Yesterday, Leigh, Michael's big sister and her youngest son, Scott came to visit us which made our day. It really was the best medicine for Georgie and she turned the corner after that. We may get out tomorrow - we have to wait and see what the doctors say.

We are then back on Monday and she is on the GA list again to try to re start chemo again. Her blood results are getting better so it will be good to get that over and done with. Then on to Maintenance. More on that later.

Michael has just arrived for a visit so I shall post this and send some more photos and fill you all in on what has been happening over the last couple of months.

Love to you all. Sxxxx