Dom, January 2011
Hello folks, I’m a bit of a stranger to the blog these days. I thought I would drop in and let you know that Dom is doing OK. I should really let you know what happened over Christmas too and I’ll do it later, maybe. Suffice it to say that it was quiet as the people we were expecting to see on the day didn’t come. We saw Viv and Kate for dinner on Boxing Day, and very nice it was too.
As you will see from the photo, Dom’s hair has grown back, even the hair on his arms and legs, which was the last thing to return, is growing back now. He will be as furry as squirrel if it continues much longer. He is very proud of the paintbrush on the end of his chin which he has chosen not to shave off for reasons alien to me. Still, I’m his mum and it’s my job to grumble about these things but in the great scheme of things ….. whatever!
Anyhow, the reason for sharing a bit of news today is that it was Dom’s 18th birthday on Saturday 15th January and yesterday (Monday) he had his first proper follow up at UCH.
Viv, my mum (Oma), had her 70th birthday on Friday last week. Dom, Ngawang and I all went down to Sandwich as soon as Dom had finished school and had a lovely dinner in the company of Viv, her very good friends Denny, Nina and Dorothy and Kate, my sister. The following day we set off after lunch to get Dom back in time to go out with some friends in the evening.
Unfortunately some of Dom’s closest friends are out of the country and not on hand to help him celebrate but he and Megan from next door went into London to enjoy the clubbing scene. He had a great night by all accounts.
Dom and Megan on his 18th Birthday
There are some better photos somewhere but I haven’t uploaded them into the laptop yet so you will have to do with this one for the time being of Dom and Megan just before they left to paint the town red or any other colour!
The other reason for me ‘dropping in’ to the blog as it were, was that Dom had his follow up appointment yesterday. He was transferred to Jeremy Wheelan’s care in the past couple of weeks. He had his chest x-ray last Thursday which gave the doctors a chance to review it before his appointment.
We (Dom and I) saw one of the registrars, not one we were familiar with, who asked him about his leg and confirmed that there was no changes on his x-rays which Jeremy had looked at earlier. This is good news. He is still clear. We can move on until his next follow up appointment in March. Yeay!
That’s all for now. TTFN
Hi ya’ll
I’ve just received my brand new laptop computer, my birthday prezzy with the money from Dorothy and Ann (Humphries Mum), I’m delighted with it, I got a friend John to set it up for me so I am playing with it and decided I would go into your blog, I haven’t visited for a long while now as I thought you had finished, but am delighted to find lots more news, I really enjoyed reading it especially as I already knew it all good. I’m looking after Humphrey until Friday as Ann has flu and is staying in bed, poor H and Lucy haven’t seen much of me since my new laptop was delivered at 2pm, it is now 10 passed 6pm, time I fed the poor beasties.
Great to see you all at my 70th, especially Dom who is looking great, chin fluff and all. Lovely to hear enjoyed his birthday celebration, I am trying to get a photographic file together, I haven’t yet worked out what I have to do to get the photos you send into my photo file, I’ll read all the instructions and try to make sense of it, if I can’t I’ll be phoning you shouting …HELP!
Loads of love Viv / Oma xx xx xx