We’ve made jokes from time to time about how Alex seems to get sick on or around significant dates and anniversaries… Well Phil and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary Guess what happened. In his defence, this time it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought kids were supposed to be teenagers before they started giving their parents issues to which their parents could sigh, roll their eyes, and say ‘hormones’. I guess Alex is just getting an early start. On Saturday we gave […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two weeks after surgery Alex started back on the growth hormone (GH) injections at the reduced dose of .3 of a ml daily, since he seemed to be sensitive to GH the endocrine team decided that it would be better […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The next chapter in our medical adventures started on Thursday the 13th of September with an appointment for Jenny with nurse Kate of the endocrine department. I was to be taught how to administer an injection of growth hormone, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We make jokes from time to time about the different departments at the hospital, how one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing etc, but this Thursday was a rare example of the opposite happening. We had an ENT […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the main, like most parents I suspect, I find the looming prospect of school holidays somewhat daunting. Two long weeks with children who seem to have been given a challenge to see how much of a mess they can […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Thursday Alex had an appointment at the hospital, but it was the start of a new chapter in our journey, we were starting with our fourth department at WCH – endocrinology. It’s a somewhat blurred starting line, since technically […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So in case you missed the news, the papers, social media or generally the buzz around town (I’m still blown away to say this…) but Alex was the toast of the town on Friday and what a day it was! […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alex has a habit of having hospital worthy crises on major holidays, but when Christmas, new year and my birthday came and went with no stresses we though he’d broken the habit. Enter the first day of school. The morning […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the 20th of September Alex had a neurosurgery checkup. Because he’d been admitted for odd episodes a while back he had been scheduled a checkup appointment six weeks or so post discharge, so we dropped Jenny off to Grandma […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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