Day+12


Another early start for the three of us, with cups of tea and coffee, a quick play on the Wii and an even quicker, unwanted bed bath!


Forgive me if I seem to be whizzing passed all the usual morning preliminaries but we are anxious to get on to the real news of the day. Ella had an early visit today from the consultant, not her own but another in the team, who came to say that her white cell count is up again, indicating further that the donor cells are being accepted. He told us that, because she is responding soooooo well, the feeding lines would be taken down today, the morphine discontinued and as far as possible Ella's medication will be given orally! It's wonderful news and real progress isn't it?


We watched another showing of Mrs Doubtfire, just to make sure that we know all the dialogue in the first hour by heart, and said bye bye to Daddy. Time for a little nap before Mummy arrived, or so Ella thought! The first batch of orals arrived.................


Nanna's face must have been a picture, as I looked from them, to Ella and back to them again. I know what I was thinking................


Tricia, the ward Sister for this morning, said that she would give sleeping beauty another five mins and then come back, which she did, to wake Ella up. Ella's reaction to seeing the medicines lined up in syringes was predictable.........NO! It took a lot of gentle persuasion and reassurance to get the first taste down, and eventually with a short break in between they were down, and stayed down. A further 'grumpy' play on the Wii helped us to forget. Fortunately, Mummy arrived back with Sam and Ian, just in time to take our minds off it completely.


Ella made and played with Mummy for a while and then it was time to go along to Xray for a check up on the chest, ( a little rattle ). We processed proudly along the corridor....Mummy and Ella leading the way, myself and the monitors bringing up the rear guard.


Ella has been quite sleepy today, with frequent naps in between activities. One huge difference today is that Ella's hair loss has started for real. Whilst we are holding our breath in amazement and total admiration for this dear little girl, Ella's only comment this afternoon was " it's gone in the glue now..it's stuck all over my painting!"


Bedtime came quite early and took us by surprise. Mummy had been persuaded that the only way for Ella to get from her bed to the bed/settee, to watch TV, was to be carried across the room. A very good ploy, which Ella has been using on Auntie Rachael and Daddy just recently. ( I think I'm considered too old for the job). Once across here she promptly fell asleep, missing all her favourites......Emmerdale, 'Enders and Corrie. Actually, we noticed that she was panting slightly, so after a quick look over by Sister it was decided to give her a whiff of oxygen, which meant carrying her back again! Do we mind? Of course not! She looks really cosy and settled at the moment.


I'm including a photo of Sally tonight. As I blog she is ........guess what?.........cross stitching..........in a darkened room, with a Tinkerbell reading light shining on it. Honestly, I never thought I would see the day!!!!!!!!

What can I do as my new hobby? I've tried macaroon dissection, cardio vascular dancing and Wii -ing. Maybe I'll take up quilling......I've heard it's quite relaxing.

Sally and I are just deciding who is going to make the next cup of tea..........I think I'm going to win. There are some good points about pulling rank aren't there?
Night night to everyone and lots of love and thank you's for all your blogs and messages.

Sally, Ella and Annette.xxxxxxxxxxx

PS Ella has got all her lines down, except one. She will have a real surprise when she wakes up!