1st August - Back Again!

Reid got out of hospital on Monday, and as you know, I have been at home in Toowoomba, so I haven't seen Reid since last Wednesday. Today Mum and Aunty Gwen took Reid up to Banksia Outpatients and he had some blood tests,his central line dressing changed and a nose suck thingo. This is a test where they put this thing up Reids' nose and turn on a pump, then they test the stuff that comes out of his nose and it tells them whether or not he still has the flu or not. Yucko! It must have been ok, because now the only concern is the fact that 10 days ago Reid was in contact with Chicken Pox, and even though he had the inmunoglobulin injections he could still get the virus, so after 10 days of being in contact he may now be infectious. So he now has to take a course of tablets to make sure that if he does have it,he won't get it. (Does that make sense?) All going well, we start chemo on Monday, but due to the Chicken pox we will have to have our treatment in Patterson ward (the infectious diseases ward) as we cant infect any other children...just in case....we do have it....holy smokes. Nothing is left to chance.
RCH had a teddy bears picnic today, and Reid had his photo taken with Wags the Dog and Dorothy the Dinosaur. It was filmed by channel seven so he maybe on the news tonight! I will head down to Brisbane tomorrow and Mum will head out to my sister's for a much needed break. She and Aunty Gwen have been fabulous. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't have them. Reid is really well, so we may even get a visit to the boat this weekend all going well. But we wont be coming back to Toowoomba until it warms up...I'm not going to risk the flu again!