Long Time between Drinks

It's been a while since I have written on the blog. I finished up work for the year today and am looking forward to a few weeks off. I'll kick off again in the new year. Karli is currently enjoying watching her favourite program - McLeod's Daughters. Needless to say, I'm not as keen on it.

Our little man is sleeping soundly. He began the last cycle in his consolidation a week and a half ago. While he was on steroids Karli and I headed off to celebrate our 10 years of marriage and left him at home with Nanna and Grandad. We had a lovely night off, and he seemed to handle it fine, and Nanna and Grandad too. He does seem a little dubious about whether or not we are around at night though, and is not at all keen on going down at Nanna and Grandad's. Hopefully we will be able to sort that out this week with a few trips down the road to play at Nanna's and lot's of kisses and cuddle's from mum and dad.

He had his cast removed on Wednesday. Without it he has started to lift himself up onto his feet and to climb a couple of stairs. He is also much more mobile on all fours, and is spending a lot of time walking alongside the couch. I'm hoping that by the time I head back to work he will be running us ragged. We've had a few trips to the hospital the past week to have his nasogastric tube reinserted. We hadn't been in for quite a while, then he decided to start at it a couple of weeks ago. Actually, the day after Karli's last entry, while I was still down south, he pulled it out, so you can add that to Karli's rough day while I was away.

Christmas isn't far away - as if you didn't know. We are steadily building up a pile of pressies to wrap for our little man. I'm not sure he'll know what's going on, but I'm excited about seeing him surrounded by toys and wrapping paper on Christmas day.

Standing up against his gift from Santa at the Kids Cancer Support Group Christmas Party.

A quick photo before heading back to PMH to have his NG tube reinserted.

We discovered that our little man hasn't finished with the doxorubicin. He needs to get a certain amount during the course of his treatment, so it looks like we will have more of it on the way. It's probably not that much of an issue given that it doesn't seem to affect him much any more, but it will be nice to have it taken out of his regime eventually.