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…
The Friday after the MRI Alex was given the all clear to come home. We had a referral in the works for Neurology and were told we would be informed of our appointment time very shortly. We kept an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our last post detailed Alex’s port removal – no more safety blanket. The port hadn’t been used in a year or so and the MRI scans were good so the time seemed right to remove it. On Monday just gone […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So it’s hard getting out of bed on Mondays at the best of times, but this Monday was harder than usual – the alarm went off at 5.45! Alex and I were headed into DOSA for 7am. Monday was Port […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the end of last year Alex had his grommets removed and his ears investigated, and a hole in each eardrum was discovered. 3 and a bit months on there has been some healing but not a great deal, his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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