Back in Cairns

Joshua is now into day 6 of his 7-day hospital stay. Pretty boring really as he's not allowed to leave his room due to the risk of a chemo spill. Tomorrow around lunchtime he will have all his chemo lines disconnected and at some point in the morning will have his last lumbar puncture. Then he will go back to the accommodation to recover. Usually the worst days are between day 10-16 of the cycle and then his bloods should start to be on the up. He will still be at risk of infections while his immunity is low so please keep praying for these final few weeks. Daniel has just been talking to the nutritionist about what to eat to make the process as quick as possible. Please pray for Joshua's appetite to recover quickly so we can start stuffing in all those good foods! 

For us in Cairns it feels pretty strange that we are here and Joshua is still in hospital. It was so great to get the scan result, but I will feel much better when Daniel and Josh are finally able to come back to Cairns. That will be a very exciting day.

The other children went back to school on Friday. I was thinking that they would have Friday off, get used to being back and then start again on the Monday, but there was no stopping them. Even Ruben was up and dressed in his uniform ready to go to Kindy. They are all thrilled to be back and into their normal routine. 

Bethany's informal was apparently 'awesome'. Good job really as we had made quite an effort to make it back here on time!