RG3:Radioactive Girl III

Tomorrow I'm taking Ciara up to Crumlin for a split function kidney test. This is to determine which of her kidneys is the least knackered before they go rumaging around on Surgery Day (14th Sep). The idea is that while they try to remove the tumour they see the kidney is in a mess, they would remove it, but they need to make sure that it's not the only functioning one.

The scan tomorrow involves another radioative dye injection. This of course means that Yvonne can't be around for a while, the rest of the day at least.

Ciara finished her last chemo on Sunday and we came home to a beautiful new garden courtesy of our folks. We're hoping to have a chance to enjoy it this weekend.

The chemo went pretty much without a hitch, no sickness at all. She did have a temperature spike last week though, but a day later it was identified that one of her freddie tubes had got a bit of strep so she's been up and down to the Portlaoise with her mum all week to get that sorted. We found out today that another tube has got an infection of some sort too, so Ciara and Yvonne are off to Portlaoise again this evening for a new culture and antibiotic shot.

Tomorrows scan will be a bit of an experiment for us. Previously Ciara has been terrified on the scanning equipment and had to be given a general anaesthetic everytime to keep her still. However recently she has been even more terrified of the GA so tomorrow we are going to try without. I'll have to explain it to her tonight.

After the scan I don't know what's happening. We're just counting down the days before surgery and hoping that and tests being done at the moment allow that to go ahead.