Monday, 9 November 2009 - Day +91

Today was a hospital day which was a challenging one. Drew's vein in his right arm, despite TWO tries wouldn't give up the blood, and silly Mummy had only put cream on one arm, as we'd never had trouble before. Drew, of course was upset that we were going to have a third go in his other arm and wasn't too keen on having the cream on. Again to his credit, I am so proud of him, he let me put it on and then we went and had hot chocolate and raisin toast (I'm sure that was an incentive too) while the cream numbed his arm. When it was time to do it, he did his breathing, didn't struggle and although Dr Sarah still had some difficulty finding his vein, he still let us do it. Dr Frank gave him the good news when his results came back that he wouldn't need blood taken on Thursday (I did an inward dance too), and hopefully next Monday his veins will be more co-operative and Mum will put cream on both arms. He wanted a bigger book for his 'cricket stats' so that was his reward for being such a brave boy and he carries it everywhere with him, his pretty easily pleased.