SISTERS! - Maintenance - Week 48

16th to  22nd December

We've had to keep my week quiet, I've not been able to go to school or anything fun, Mummy and Daddy want me well for Christmas so Joe took my Christmas cards to all my friends at school and I stayed home.

On Wednesday I had to go to hospital for my goblins (IVIG) because I have the Parvovirus again, that is why my blood has been so poorly. The only good thing has been not taking my brown medicine everyday.

Again it took a LONG time at hospital and it didn't help that my blood didn't want to come out for all the tests they wanted to take. The Doctor had to put the end of the bed up high so all my blood rushed to my head and then he wanted me to pretend like I was doing a big poo on the toilet. He looked very funny. But it did make my blood come out nice and easily.

After the hospital we ran home to get changed into my Tinkerbell Dress and silver shoes for my cousins 4th birthday party, last year I missed it because I was in hospital having blood, this year we were late. Next year maybe I'll be there for the whole party. I didn't really feel very well at the party and I just wanted to go home to bed. But it was nice to see my cousin and give her the birthday present we had bought her.

My best day though this week was Friday as my big sister came home from University! We had to wait all day for her aeroplane, in the end I decided the only way to make it come quick enough was to go to bed and sleep. It worked when I woke up it was time to go and collect her! And to make it even better I got to have Chinese noodles and sweet and sour sauce from the shop for tea!

At the moment Toni is my very best favourite person, unless her boyfriend is here then I like him better!

On Sunday my Auntie called to say my Cousin has chicken pox and that we wont be able to see her over Christmas. That made us all sad because we wanted to have the whole family together and now AGAIN someone would be missing.

 Mum Says: We are so relieved to find out that Alice has the Parvovirus again, as they other option was a relapse and that would have been devastating. We know what to expect from the Parvovirus and are able to relax a bit before Christmas. We are finally feeling ready for Christmas, no matter how ready we were with the food shopping and presents someone was missing and now Toni is home it all feels better. This is the first time we have all been together in one house since May, unfortunately My Niece has Chicken Pox and cannot be with Alice (Chicken Pox being life threatening to Alice at the moment) So we will still not manage a Christmas with the whole family!