Happy Mothers' Day

Every few days brings new interesting experiences in child leukemia world. Celia has continued to recover well in the last few days. She's much happier and is walking much better. Since the encouraging news of Tuesday she has embarked on a new stage of treatment known as 'Consolidation' - no steroids any more but chemo taken daily by tablet at home, together with a continuation of antibiotics and various anti-bacteria and infection treatments. The only little worry is that Celia's mood is perhaps just a little too happy. She's definitely acting in a slightly weird, space-cadet type mood most of the time. She talks incessantly from morning to night in rather strange bullet-point and very disconnected sentences. We'll watch that closely and hope it is just the effect of the new drugs - it is certainly much more pleasant than zombie Celia of the previous few weeks.

Today was Mothers' Day in Australia and Celia happily helped make a card for mum and loved the experience of serving breakfast in bed. It's been a beautiful sunny weekend so we had plenty of time outdoors enjoying the garden, the park and (probably) the last barbie of the season. Our Scottish mate Tommy came round with his dog and I had a good long Skype chat with my old mate Alex. We're looking forward to three more visitors this year now - Lydia's sister Julie arriving soon, Alex and Lesley in October and my sister Ruth and family at Christmas. Celia is really excited about that one - it gives us something positive to look forward to.
The cards and presents keep arriving thick and fast - thank you everyone. And we have now managed to sort out a new donation page for all those people who keep offering to send money. We'll post the details in a day or two.
All the best from a positive, sunny, Melbourne - definitely a Happy Mothers' day.