There is so much to say about Dom’s continuing good progress. For a while Dom was doing so much I could hardly keep up. On top of this there have been many things that have happened which have distracted me from keeping this up to date. I will have to do a bit more to bring it up to date.
In short Dom’s hair came back quite quickly after he finished treatment but it is soft instead of wiry like it was before, and he swears that it is brown and not black. In my opinion (and that of most of the people we know) it isn’t but he has a bee in his bonnet about it. He continues to get stronger every month, his regular physiotherapy has got him to the point where he is able to jog. Regular check ups for both oncology and orthopaedics have been fine to date. He has oncology check ups every two months and orthopaedic every 6 months.
He has been taking the starring role in all manner of stuff! This includes his 5 nights of appearances at the Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts in March where he told the audiences about his experiences. He did is bit for TCT again on the TV for a segway in the programme So You Think You Can Sing. This was a fund raising show which had a little section in about some of the kids who have been helped and supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust.
He took his AS Levels this year. He had to repeat a year of course and so the end of this year saw his year group moving on. He has formed some strong bonds with guys in the lower year which will be good for him as he goes on to take his A2s next year providing he gets the right results of course.
He and Ngawang were supposed to be going to Vietnam this year. It didn’t happen. We did go to Hurghada in Egypt as a family for a week’s holiday and came home only 2 days ago. We were able to do some diving and the boys went off to the desert on a quad bike safari.
We have sadly lost friends who were on the ward at the same time as Dom this year. We mourn the loss of Andre, Tristan, Rebecca in particular.
