Out

#1
Out of the hospital! Yeah!

His appetite is not good though - It's really hard to stay enthusiastic about plain porridge with soy sauce and bread with a thin layer of jam.

Somehow, the stay has also transformed him. Maybe it's frustration, maybe boredom, maybe helplessness or maybe just too much TV over the last 3 days. He pretends to shoot things with a pen and tells me, "See, Mummy! Holes over there!". He bangs his fist on the shower door to protest against hair-washing and throws his toys on the floor when they don't do what he wants them to do. He also rains blows on me when I don't give him what he wants.

The last few hours at home though has calmed him down a lot. He's no longer confined to moving within the radius of his IV tube. There's no longer a beeper (on the infusion pump) that goes off ominously. It kept going off last night and the nurses had to adjust the catheter on his hand. The catheter finally did fall off for good last evening but thank goodness they also decided that it was no longer necessary to continue him on the drip.

#2
His grandparents have also decided to stop him going to school. They've tried for the last couple of months to get us to stop sending him there. He's been sick every other week since he started school. I've called the school this morning. A notice of one month has is given. No more school. At least for the rest of this year.