Birthdays and Blood Transfusions - Maintenance - Week 46

1st to 7th December

I've had a very exciting time celebrating my Birthday. On Sunday we had a Mad Hatters Tea Party at my house with my cousins and some friends. It was lots of fun. I had a teapot birthday cake, I wore my Alice in Wonderland dress and we played pass the parcel, but mostly we made lots of noise and mess, we even hid under my sisters bed if you take the draws out from under her bed 4 of us fit under the bed!

Monday was my actual Birthday and I went to school which is always fun and Mummy took me to McDonalds for lunch, just us 2. When Daddy came home from work we put Skype on to talk to Nana and Grandad in England and I opened MORE presents from Mummy and Daddy and my family in England. It is so much fun being 4!

On Wednesday I went to hospital to have my blood tests, we were hoping to make it to my dance class in the afternoon, although I had been tired for a few days it was hard to tell if it was because I was excited or ill. When I got to Rainbow Ward they made me wear a special Birthday Hat and gave me a present, a game and they sang to me and I had balloons. I wore my new special silver shoes I had for my Birthday for the nurses to see.

My blood tests weren't very good and I needed to have another blood transfusion. So the Nurses called Mummy for me to go and see them on Friday.

Mummy and I sorted out all my birthday presents and I took all the ones I wanted to play with whilst I had my blood. It takes a LONG time.

The problem this time was that I had a temperature when I finished having my blood and the Doctor said I was going to have to stay with them for a few days on IV Antibiotics. I was not happy about that at all, but Mummy and Daddy both had sleep overs with me so that made it better and I had my new toys to play with, and I got to put the star on top of the Christmas tree in the play room.

Mum Says: Alice had a wonderful Birthday and was thrilled with every gift she had. We try not to arrange a big party for her as we are always a bit unsure if she will be well enough to do things on the day, this year she was well and enjoyed every last second of her party collapsing into bed when everyone left. We knew there was a chance Alice would need antibiotics as she was getting low after her Birthday and we knew she had a cold, what child doesn't in December, there are lots of viruses around at school. We didn't expect her to need a blood transfusion. During Maintenance we are not suppose to be having transfusions etc. The Doctors have tested her again for the Parvovirus.