Interesting....

Hello All,

to give you all an update. The new IVIG product didn't give me many problems this time! YES! I didn't have headaches or flu symptoms or the pain I get with it. I had slight fatigue and tremors but I felt heaps better and didn't spend my week in tears like I have the last number of infusions. I really pray that all the infusions will be like this from now on. What a relief.

I am feeling much better. I still have a cough but it is going. The infection is gone I think. Bloods were improved this past time as well which I am really pleased about. Nuets were 1500! I am pleased with that.

I think I will still have that MRI but because I have an anaesthetic, I needed to wait until I am more well from the cough.

News! I am having surgery in about 6 weeks. It is a private issue for me but I thought I better let you know I am having the surgery. It is a gynae surgery but I wanted to let you know not to worry...no cancer or anything like that. It is a big surgery and I will take some time to recover. So please keep me in prayer. They will be cutting me. I will be in hospital for a week at the least and more if I need it. The date is 19th Sept. All steam ahead unless for some reason it gets cancelled. I will have a boost of platelets because the surgery requires really high platelets and mine are not in that range...as you know they dropped a bit since the blast count went up a little...but all is stable. My counts are very stable right now. Just don't have high enough for this surgery and they will be cutting me and I wanted to be safe. This would be the first time I have had platelets all my life....well I had them when I had a reaction to quinine when I was 17 years old...it wiped my count out from 150 000 to 2000...but since then I have never had one...not even when Isaac was born...my count boareded on 120 000 when I had Isaac. I am often private with my counts but my platelets are not that high anymore either but not low enough for needing platelets...except with huge procedures. So I am actually nervous about it. Isn't that strange...something I don't have to do and so I get scared about it...hmmm...so many kids and different people have to have it and I bet those kids are less scared than me.

Ok, so now to update on Isaac. He is well and back at kindy. We were supposed to meet with the paediatric dentist last Wed and we got the place mixed up and had to re-sechedule for this Wed. His tooth that was going black has lightened up again and is close to the normal colour of the other tooth! Praise the Lord! God answered my prayers with a little thing like this!

I am trying to work this week. Need to ring my hospital and put my name down for a nursing shift. I will be having a couple of months off work after the surgery and need to make myself known before then...get a doctor's note from my GP about it and probably should do all my drug calculations, manual handling and CPR certificates with the hospital before my surgery. Then when I am ready I can just go back and practice without having to do all this after.

Alan is good. Working as per usual. And he has Mon and Wed with me at home but I am sure that some of those days are mostly spent doing his private company. There are days that we choose to have only for us and go on an outing though. He is trying to set up his new company properly.

Well, I am gonna go. I am waiting to hear from 2 friends when they go into labour. Hehe...I may go visit one of them this afternoon while Alan is working....may be Isaac is settled asleep...I don't know...we will see.

Oh I am still knitting. It is very relaxing and I am a lot faster now. I am working on my 3rd square. I would be further along but the infusion trouble made it hard to knit with all that pain the last couple of months...I am doing more now though.

All of those families going to camp...I hope you all have a wonderful time! I will hopefully get to go another time!

Love you All,
Charisse