Emily's Journey

Hi Everyone.

Emily had a great day today and got the opportunity to go to the art studio of Tony Cribb.  Tony gave her one of his tin man books with a personal message in the front.  Emily said in the car “I will treasure this..”

Tony painted a tin man picture titled “Bucketloads of courage” which he donated for an auction to raise money for Camp Quality.  This painting was purchased by a kind person who then donated it to Emily.

Emily continues to do well though is picking up every bug around at the moment. She appears to be symptom free on the cancer front and has had no complaints of pain. Again I have no idea what is going on in her body but the fact that she remains pain free is awesome.  We are touching base with the palliative care team on a weekly basis and I am taking great pleasure in telling then how well she is doing right now (aside from the coughs, colds etc…) Coughs and colds are “c” words that I can handle!

Last Wed, Thurs and Fri, we had the most amazing time with good friends from Wellington who came to spend two nights with us. Wee Abby that came to stay went through treatment with Emily and they had never seen each other outside of the hospital! They had an amazing time swimming, shopping, going to clip n climb, Lone Star Restaurant etc and I had a great time catching up with Abby’s Mum Shelley!  Was so nice doing normal things together and watching our kids have so much fun. I think Shelley and I were more exhausted than Emily and Abby when it was time for them to go home. The kids stamina is astounding! Thanks for coming to stay with us Abby and Shelley!

I would like to thank some of the other Wellington families we went though treatment with. These kind families, who themselves have endured the cancer journey sent gifts down to Emily via Abby and Shelley. Thanks Rach and Ian, Gabi and Millie, and Kat, Gavin, Angus and Phoebe. Very kind :) And thanks also to everyone else who takes Emily out and about, giving her lots of awesome experiences.

School holidays next week. I can’t keep up with Emily’s social life but going to try and have a few quiet days in between sleepovers etc so Em can have some down time and I can just chill out with all my kids. She has done so much in the last 3 months which has been awesome but needs a rest….  and I have a baby to grow.  15 weeks to go.  Em wants to come to the birth!

I will update in a couple of weeks,

Kath