Poorly girl



Poorly in hospital

Lots of blood tests this last 2 weeks

Well this last part of Charlotte's intensive treatment over the last 3 weeks have been really hard; Charlotte been very sick from her General Anaesthetic & Lumbar Puncture each time & then twice had throat infections. Charlotte's a lot better in herself now but I must admit all the hospital trips for chemo or stays when unwell have left me pretty drained & exhausted. Charlotte's blood counts dropped much lower after this intensive phase second time round and she was close to needing transfusions this week but thankfully Friday's bloods showed a nice increase, so another week & she should be on top of that more. Being in hospital meant Charlotte missed the Princess & Pirates Party at Hamleys on Sunday organised by Meg & Jean at Believe in Magic, Charlotte was so disappointed as she'd chosen a 'Rapunzel' Princess dress to go in. But she got a lovely surprise a few days later when a massive Snow White Helium Balloon arrived from them as she'd missed the party.


'Rapunzel'

With the balloon sent by Believe in Magic as Charlotte

 




She managed 2 hours in school Wednesday, 10-3 Thursday & then a full day on Friday. She has been really tired & needed a sleep after school but then that's to be expected, especially as she was anaemic. She's missed 2 weeks of school which apart from the Christmas Holidays is the longest she's been off in one go, so she was for the first time hesitant in going back, but was really pleased to see her best friend & I'm sure she's back into it now.
Its been nice to have some 'normality' back Friday & over the weekend. We went shopping this morning & will be at Church in the morning. Now we're getting ready to watch our football team Manchester City on TV!
We went on a camping holiday at the end of August after Charlotte had picked up from her first few months of treatment & before she started school. Since then we had the first 8 week intensive block of treatment, a house move, Christmas and have just finish the 2nd (& hopefully last) intensive treatment and I thought it would be really nice for us now to get a break somewhere, away from home, hospital, routine & just have some fun & relax and thanks soo much to the amazing Charity Leaf ~ Leukaemia Educating & Fundraising we're going to Centre Parcs in 3 weeks time for a Mon-Fri break. My Mum's coming with us as she helps a lot with Charlotte and has been back & forth to the hospital a lot or having Charlotte for some time to give me a break, so I thought she could really do with a break as well.