A reminder that we haven't reached the finish line just yet

After hearing that the end of Celia's treatment was within touching distance (June) and being told on Friday that her blood counts were so good we could drop the next fortnightly blood test, Andy and I were obviously feeling very elated.  And even though Celia was on steroids at the weekend we let her start swim lessons on Saturday (in an outdoor pool as indoor pools are still out off limits), then we had a mother & daughter day out on Sunday to visit the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition.  As you can see from her sketches it provided our budding artist/fashion designer with some fantastic inspiration!

As the title suggests we came crashing back to reality on Monday as Celia spiked a temperature of 39 degrees and we had to get her hooked up to an antibiotic drip for a few hours. As her blood counts remained high they let us go home which surprised me, but we had to return to hospital for some more intravenous antibiotics yesterday. She has still got a high temperature today and remains very lethargic but hopefully the test results of the cultures they took will be back this afternoon and we can treat whatever infection she has accordingly.
We have our annual family camp with the wonderful Camp Quality cancer charity this weekend so fingers crossed Celia makes a very speedy recovery as the whole family is looking forward to it but this does serve as a timely reminder that she is not out of the woods just yet.