Monday, 15 February - Sunday, 28 February 2010

Drew has had a pretty good 2 weeks. Monday we were off to see Dr Frank and all went well and then Tuesday we went to see the Opthamologist and Drew thought he'd won the lottery. Normally he would have eye drops put in which help the Dr look at Drew's eyes and they sting quite a bit, but the Dr was happy not to put them in today and Drew was ecstatic. The rest of the week was spent at school. On the weekend we had a great weekend away with Camp Quality at Riverwood Downs, Monkerai Valley. All the boys had a great time in the river on the rapids and in the great hall playing tennis and other ball games, the food was great and it was very relaxing. Sunday was Kurt's birthday and he was presented with a birthday cake at breakfast as he and Kyle were leaving early for the start of their football season. They had mixed success, the birthday boy didn't get a win, going down 5-2, but Kyle's team came from 2 nil down to win 3-2. Monday we were back at John Hunter for Drew to have his 6 monthly bone marrow aspirant on a different ward to usual. It was a marathon day, arriving at 7.15am, Drew wasn't called to theatre until 12.20pm, we still didn't go up to theatre for another 30 minutes. Once we arrived up there an emergency caesarian had to be done (on someone else, not Drew), so we were told it would be another hour, which turned into 2 hours. Drew finally went to sleep at 3.00pm, to his credit he handled it well, Mum on the other hand wasn't impressed. We returned to the old familiar ward as the one we were originally admitted to had shut for the day, if that doesn't say something I don't know what does. Finally at 7pm that night,for what is less than a 30 minute procedure, we left for home. Fingers crossed the results come back negative. Drew wasn't able to compete at his swimming carnival the next day, but went to cheer his brother Dane along. Wednesday afternoon was Drew's football grading, he was very excited about that. The weekend came around again and this week the results were reversed with Kurt having a 4-0 win and Kyle a 5-2 loss. It was a very hot day and although being a reluctant spectator, Drew handled it very well. Back to hospital for blood tests tomorrow.