Monday 1 February - Sunday 7 February 2010

It has been a bit of a mixed bag this week. Drew went off to school on Monday and Tuesday but has been quite grumpy. I'm sure it's taking it out of him but he refuses to admit he is tired. He definitely wasn't 100% because we had prawns for his brother's birthday, the first time in over 6 months for him and he had 1 and put them in the fridge for the next day. He got one of the Library Monitors positions so he was quite chuffed about that. On Tuesday a little sore which looked suspiciously like a cold sore appeared at the side of his mouth, so it was off to the local Dr on Wednesday morning, who conferred with Dr Frank and Drew was placed on acyclovir and then off to school. Thursday was back for bloods, which went without a hitch, and then to see Dr Frank. All was good and Dr Frank stopped his steroids and didn't want to see Drew until Monday week. Drew and the boys went for a swim in an indoor pool that afternoon and then on the way home we got a call from Dr Frank that Drew's electrolytes and kidney function were a bit dodgy and he would have to go back the next day for another blood test. The next day we had a blood collector who we hadn't had before and she used the arm which can be a bit hard, well she couldn't get blood, Drew was screaming as she dug around and I was just knotting up inside. I took him out and let him calm down and after a while, to his credit, he was ready to go back and have another go, we then got the collector who did it the day before and he doesn't even feel it go in and it is done and dusted in 30 seconds. His kidney function his slightly better than yesterday but still not great, so now we will come back on Tuesday for more bloods. All his brothers soccer games and the Mariners were cancelled on the weekend due to the rain and he couldn't go to the cricket nets so he was a bit disappointed about that, but glad he wasn't in hospital.