Turning a corner

Yesterday, Ciara's consultant, Dr O'Meara, told Ciara she's getting better. She thinks she's definitely turned a corner and is on the road to recovery. While the abdomen and weight is still up, Ciara's general fitness is improving. We've managed to take he over to Ronald McDonald House a couple of times too.

Last week there was still a question as to whether she had VOD, or something else. An SOS was sent out to a liver specialist - Professor Bourke - on Thursday. We were told Friday morning that he wouldn't be available that day as he was at his mother's funeral and it would be inappropriate to bother him. Unbelievably, he arrived at Ciara's bedside Friday afternoon after getting the message Thursday. After an examination he was confident that Ciara did indeed have VOD and that just because it didn't tick all the boxes, didn't prove that it wasn't VOD. To strengthen that position, the urinary catecholamines came back normal as expected.

Change of photo subject for this post. Our stupid cat, who was staying with Yvonne's sister, has been hit by a car. She'd been running feral around our house for the past nine months, and a few weeks of care and attention at Anne-Marie's had made her go soft and lose her ability to cross the road without badly breaking her leg. She had no pet insurance, and funds being tight meant we had to...take her to the vets and get her fixed like any other human being would have done. Had ya worried!! Ciara must of heard us talking about Coffee as she asked if she was still alive. Thanks to Anne-Marie for sorting the cat out and Coffee is getting on well with the splint. Stupid cat.

Update: Forgot to mention, Yvonne went for a check-up today, all looking good for sometime this week.