My Head

Hello Everyone,
well we have been busy here. It is still the summer, school holidays. We have 3 weeks more of holidays. In total, Isaac will have had 7 weeks school holidays at the end of all that! Wow! I have thoroughly LOVED having him home. Usually mums tell you that they get restless and tired with the kids being at home. I have not experienced this these holidays at all. Isaac has been so well behaved and we have done so many interesting things. Isaac is not ready to go back to school yet either. He has told me that. He isn't even bored! I hope that he feels ready to go back in 3 weeks. I want him home but he will have to start school in 3 weeks. I hope he feels ready!

So this past Friday I had my IVIG infusion and it went really well. I am not feeling too bad. Yesterday I felt rather shaky and I have a bit of a headache and leg pain but otherwise I am ok.

My head scar is healing up ok. I have been having a bit of trouble with it though. For anyone who doesn't know, I had a small, cancerous sweat gland tumor removed from there some months ago.....4 or 5 months ago. The top of the scar is still quite sore and I get a sharp pain that goes down into my head. About 1 cm of the scar there is very tender and seems to weep easily. It doesn't bleed but stuff builds up a little and then gets really sore and then feels moist and I can hardly touch it! So I told the doctor about it on Friday and he looked at it again. He said it is not acting quite normal. He is a head and neck oncologist. The rest of the scar is fine and healing well. Still a little tender but not untouchable. He is concerned something is going on there. He said that my scalp could be just really tender and delayed in healing with FA and stuff....or that there is a stitch still stuck underneath there causing this problem or that there could be abnormal cell activity going on again......the cancer. So he wants me to go back and see the surgeon to get an opinion and he wants to wait 4 more weeks to see if it settles and if it doesn't he would like the surgeon to re-open the wound to see what is going on. He said that this should be done to see if a stitch is festering under there as well....and in the mean time they would take a biopsy to check for cancer again. So re-opening it would be the key. That means another surgery which I felt a bit sad about :-(

So please pray for a good outcome there.

This Friday is my surgery date for the infusa port going into my abdo. Everything is organised and there is no reason why that shouldn't go well.

Now we have been up to quite a bit here with it being so hot. Below you can see Alan and Isaac taking a swim in my parents' pool! Lovely! We went on a trip to the Museum with Isaac's best friend from school. Both families.....ours and theirs went and it was lovely. They had a special expedition about dinosaurs on top of the usual museum stuff :-) Isaac saw this panda bear and has been sleeping with it and babying it ever since we got it for him.....so cute!

Here are the kids having hands on fun at the museum, learning about "digging" up fossilised eggs and stuff.

I think the expedition was fun! What a cool photo!

Just before New Years in 2008 we went to the river with Darren and Angela, Alan's brother and financee. It was a lot of fun. Angela brought her dingy which had a hole in it by my bottom and we paddled around in it with water up to our waists!! Haha....hence the look on our faces! It was a windy day and we had to work hard while rowing! I laughed a lot!

Alan caught a fish.......not a huge one. One of the kids caught the biggest but the fish got away. These are Carp which are a nuisance and so you cannot throw them back in even if they are babies....shame

Isn't this a beautiful shot? By our little cabin by the river?

On to other activities. Alan and I went to a friend's wedding. We got all dressed up fancy like...hehe.....I didn't realise this picture isn't so big!

Ha! Jumping back to the cabins at the river.....aren't they cute?

Ah yes, now jumping back to the wedding. All dressed up! Alan and I on the left.

My sister and I going to our friend's kitchen tea which was a High Tea, a couple of days before. I felt all prettied up then as well :-)

So that is just some of the stuff we have been up to :-)

Please pray for me as I have my port inserted and my head looked at. Life has been exciting and continues to be.

Until next time!

Love Charisse