Radioactive Girl 2

For the last three days Ciara has been radioactive and Yvonne has been away. Ciara and I were up on Wednesday for the dye injection then back up yesterday for the scan itself. The time between Ciara going under general anaesthetic and coming out of the recovery room were extremely lonely and I would not recommend doing it alone to anyone. It was great to have Ciara back with me though.

She had a transfusion afterwards so we could avoid coming in again today. We both got home at about 10.30 and went straight to bed with Ciara deciding to join me. Unfortunately I was working until about 3.30am to appease Major Client. Small companies are hard bloody work! Yvonne was back today and we managed to get a quick trip to the park before the clouds broke again.

We're yet to receive the results of the scan yet but we expect them next week. Ciara will be in Portlaoise on Sunday (Yvonne's birthday) for a full blood count before going back up to Crumlin on Monday. She is in for more bone marrow aspirates and trephines so another general for her! Still a transitional phase at the moment, we're deciding whether more stem cell harvesting is required and if she's ready for surgery. Hopefully next week we'll know more.