Normal November

We still have a few days to go until the end of the month so hopefully I'm not jinxing us but this is the first November in 2 years that he hasn't been in hospital. Drew celebrated his 11th birthday swinging from the trees at Treetops. He did 1 more course than his mother and younger brother and with a lot more ease. He celebrated McHappy Day for lunch (he loves it when it falls on his birthday and it has extra special meaning now) and a BBQ with friends for dinner. The next day was his 2 year anniversary since diagnosis and he actually managed to get through this weekend without being admitted to hospital. Two weeks after coming home from Sydney last year he got an infection and was back in hospital for a week. He restarted his immunisations after having his immune system checked, they hurt and he cried but he didn't struggle just let the Doctor do what he had to do - unfortunately he has to go back in 4 weeks and then 4 weeks after that again for another 2 each time - after that they are a bit more spaced out, but will take 12 months to complete the whole schedule. The last piece of exciting news - Drew stood for school captain and was named as one of the 4 boys who will be named as Captain, Vice Captain and 2 prefects on the 9 December at Presentation Day. He was pretty excited and Mum had tears in her eyes, so until then......

Ordinary October 2010

On the 24th of October it was our 12 month anniversary coming home from Drew's transplant in Sydney. The last 12 months have gone incredibly fast. Drew has come a long way in that time. It took 3 goes to get his blood on our hospital visit this month, but there were no tears, he just sat back and let them do it, unlike last year when we had to hold him down and coax him to get it done on the first time. He said "It was just like I was my old normal self Mum". He also tried out for representative soccer and made the U13's side as a goalkeeper. He was very excited and despite Mum's reservations we went ahead, because he has always wanted to play rep soccer and who knows what life holds in store. (Mum is quietly hoping for a growth spurt soon).

September 2010

Sorry its been a while coming, I've been waiting for bits and pieces to happen to Drew and they've just taken a while. He had his last bone marrow aspirant in September and the results were all good. He survived Mum being in China for 10 days with his 2 older brothers and Mum survived without Drew too. We were only home 1 day before Drew was off for 5 days with Camp Quality - where he had an absolute ball.