Drew Thomas Lawther

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 tha...

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 incre...

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 l...

Drew achieved a few milestones this month. The first being his 1 Year Bone Marrow Transplant Anniversary. It is hard to believe how fast t...

July was a lot quieter than the previous 2 months. Drew and his brothers enjoyed the wet school holidays and another rest from school. The l...

Sadly Paddy (the young boy who had relapsed in last post), lost his courageous battle against cancer last Thursday.

We set off from Sydney on Friday 11 June with Mike, Drew's Make-A-Wish volunteer coming to see us off and give Drew an Australian Jersey...

For those of you not as fanatical about football as we are and perhaps living in a cave this month is the Fifa World Cup and ..... DREW'...

Drew has had a really good time in May. He returned to school briefly and completed his NAPLAN tests, the last one on the day we flew out, a...

Drew has had an awesome month. Finishing the school term with only 2 days off, due to medical appointments. Easter was spent at home and Dre...

A HOSPITAL FREE ZONE WEEK - Dare I say these are becoming more frequent. I look back on this time last year when we were practically living ...

Drew has had a good two weeks. We have been back to the Hospital twice for bloods and to see Dr Frank. All is good, Drew's MRD (Minimal ...

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 a...

Off to school on Monday and then off to the Mariners postponed game on Monday night. They beat the Jets YEAH, Drew was impressed. Back to ho...

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 t...

Drew had a huge week this week. Back to see Dr Frank on Monday & bloods, which were no problem. Dr Frank has reduced steroids to every...

 

No hospital this week, although we do go back tomorrow for bloods and on Wednesday to see Jodie. Drew had a good week and a very busy weeken...

It was so normal a week it was scary. Drew went up to John Hunter on Wednesday and had his blood taken, by Sandy again, without any drama. W...

Drew has enjoyed a bit of time at the cricket nets, cricket in the backyard, playing the play station this week. The hospital visit went pr...

Drew piked out of going to the beach to go for a walk this morning - it was raining. The boys amused themselves today without any fighting....

Happy New Year! Drew woke up at 6.00am, after going to bed at 12.45am, to go to the cricket nets - I told him to go back to sleep, which he ...

Another rainy day, although it did clear up this afternoon. Drew stayed home whilst Dad and his brothers went shopping to spend their Chris...

Drew enjoyed the day at home with his brothers, riding the scooter around the garage and finally in the early evening a session down the net...

Back to John Hunter today for Drew's blood test. Being Christmas time their isn't a lot of staff on, so we went around to the Patho...

Rain again - where has summer gone? The boys are all getting on pretty well for being cooped up inside together for the last couple of days....

Rainy again so no outdoor cricket for Drew, which miffed him a bit, but at least the Wii is getting a good work out.

Dad, Kyle and Dane went and spent Boxing Day with family down near Camden, as there would be too many people for Drew, he, Kurt and I stayed...