19Th January

Nurse came today to take Christian's blood and later phoned with the results and his neutrophils are up( 0.8), so he is going in for a chemo to Royal Marsden at Sutton tomorrow.

He will have his LP ( lumbar puncture-chemo in his spinal fluid) under general anaesthetic as usual.

He also will have Cyclophosphamide ( I can't even say this one:))) and it takes 4 hours and Cytarabine - doesn't take long. He will also start his oral chemo that I give him.

So we will have a long day tomorrow and lots of chemo. Christian is quite excited actually, because he wants to go and play in a play room! Bless him!

That's why children are the best patients, one minute they crying, the next they are playing. They forget easily, they don't have negative thoughts, especially Christian's age. He doesn't even realise or care that his hair are gone. When I ask him were is his hair he shows me his bald head and says :" It's there mummy, brush them."

And he obviously doesn't understand his illness, he is very proud off his 'wiggly' ( the needle with tube that goes into his implanted port) and he thinks everybody has it.

Christian's 'wiggly'