Thursday, 26 November 2009

Back to John Hunter today, for a blood test. On the way up in the car Drew was telling me he wasn't worried about having his blood taken today, in fact he felt over confident - well famous last words. When we got there, Dr Sarah told us that Drew might be having a bone scan, which is time consuming but painless, the only difference being they leave the cannula in until they have injected the radioactive dye and then remove it. That was enough for his mood to swing and when we tried to take his blood Drew was very unco-operative and totally shut down, I thought we had got past all this and had to leave the room before I 'lost' it. I rearranged the bone scan, which Dr Frank wants to do because of the pain Drew had (apparently a rare complication can be osteonecrosis)to next week. When I went back in Drew came around and we talked about it and put some more cream on and when Dr Sarah came back he did it first time no problems and no problem with the blood coming out. Whew! The good news about today was Drew's BMA came back negative, although Frank said it was very good news "you're not out of the woods yet". He went down to Dane's training this afternoon, and saw his Chris, his soccer coach from last year and his Football NSW Coaches, Tony, Steve and Mario, who are now with the Mariners. They were all happy to see him looking so well.