Tuesday appointment

Great day yesterday. Joshua and I arrived at the hospital at 7:30 am for his ultrasound and chest x-ray. That was done easily and on time, as it always is. After that we had rather a lot of time to kill before our next appointment at 11am, so I decided to take him out for breakfast across the road from the hospital. I ordered him the biggest breakfast on the menu - all part of the feeding regime! While we were there we were accosted by a retired MAF Mareeba engineer who spotted Joshua's MAF Bangladesh t-shirt. He also has cancer and had just had an appointment.with his oncologist, so he joined us for breakfast. 

After that it was still only 9:30am, so I decided we would just go to our appointment early. I had hardly opened my kindle when we were whisked straight in for Joshua's obs (weight up again, possibly thanks to the huge breakfast!) Then without a pause straight in to see the consultant, and then vcalled straight in for Joshua's bloods. The consultant said we didn't even need to wait for results, they would call us. We were all done before 11am! Clearly the way forward is to go really early to appointments! (or it was a treat from God!) 

Josh, of course, was thrilled, to be done so early and be able to spend more time with Daniel's family who are visiting. We spent the afternoon at South Bank, trying to keep Joshua away from germs. Even better, from Joshua's point of view, although he feels fine his bloods are still rubbish and not good enough to start chemo today. That means he gets a whole day with his relatives at home, or out and about somewhere, and we try for the chemo again tomorrow. He said that's what he prayed for, so although I would just like for him to get on with the treatment, it's nice that's he's having such a good week.

(Not sure what Joshua's oncologist would say about him sitting in the sand and feeding birds!)