We have, remarkably, been sent home. To quote the surgeon, “it is a record breaking recovery from a five hour operation”.
We took him to the Marsden where we met Kathy Prichard-Jones, she is the professor of pediatric oncology and happens to run a large team of researchers who research Wilms tumors. Wilms tumors have been “curable” for 20 years or so and 90% of children apparently make a full recovery. The treatment is chemotherapy for…
Kathy Winser Kathy is doing a couple of events this year. Firstly she is doing a Triathlon on Monday the 5th May for The Christian Blandford Fund, and then in June she will be doing the 52 mile bike ride from London to Brighton to raise money for “The British Heart Foundation”. Nice on Kath!
It’s been a busy few months at The CBF. We have been finalising a very exciting project that we have been working on for the last 2 years. The fabulous news is that we effectuated a new Clinical Psychologist for the teenagers and young adults at The Royal Marsden Hospital . The psychology team at…
As we expected it’s been a tough 10 days. Christian has been on Intravenous morphine for the pain and has had bad diarrhea and vomiting. He hasn’t eaten for about a week and has been on TPN which is intravenous nutrition. His Neutrophils and white blood count have been zero and as he has had…
Wednesday 11th May We were in St George’s today for Christian to have an operation to have a new portacath fitted. He is now home and all is fine. The only drama was that an antibiotic was given too quickly (it should have been an infusion over an hour and it wasn’t) and he got…
Friday 15th July Christian was due to be having his chemotherapy at the Royal Marsden today. Unfortunately he has had a high temperature since yesterday afternoon which is a sign of infection. Claudia took him to the Royal Marsden where they started him on antibiotics and then brought him to St George’s where I am…