Gavin: The damned, err Arsenal

It was another great day at Ormond Towers, with Sonny doing plenty of physio and going for another walk to the end of the ward. Unfortunately, he was plunged into his deepest low since glandular fever when The Mighty Arsenal™ managed to throw away a 2 goal lead to end up drawing at West Ham. Between 6 and 8pm he was distraught, blaming Wenger's tactics and likening Mannone to his great granny Jean (89). As you can see from the picture, it took our full culinary skills in putting together another North London Platter to bring him back around.

Sonny: I hate PET scans

Yesterday I had to have a pet scan which started off quite exciting - I got there in a cab. When we arrived we took the lifts up to Nuclear Medicine, they saw us very quickly and took us to a room with 3 beds. I had to stay in this room for the next hour and a half. I was just there while they got my contrast ready. They then came in and injected the contrast through my Hickman line, then I had to stay still for one hour while it went through my body. That was the most annoying thing I have ever had to do. The worst thing about it was that near the end your feet go so numb it starts to hurt which makes it difficult to stay still. When they said I could move again I went, you could say, crazy with wiggling. I was the equivalent of a monkey chasing a banana.

Zoe: Another Biopsy

Sonny had his biopsy today - the doctors said it went well. The anaesthetist warned us that there may be complications due to the location of his mass so we were incredibly relieved to hear him shouting that they were all 'poor' and 'stupid' when we arrived to collect him from recovery. They took two needle samples from his left side but were unable to take any from the new mass on his right as it was too deep so fingers crossed that they have enough good tissue to make a complete diagnosis this time around. Unfortunately, they nicked Sonny's lung during the procedure, hence the shouting, so he is now really uncomfortable and needing morphine but luckily they didn't do anything too serious although frankly I could have killed them plus they also chipped one of his perfect front teeth which seems really trivial in the grand scheme of things but hey give the lad a break eh.

Zoe: Febrile Excuse

Today Sonny was very unhappy and anxious in anticipation of his endoscopy later today which was planned to see if there was anything suspect in his bowel making him so incredibly hot all the time. From past experience we knew he'd be one of the last on the list due to him being a big grown-up 9 and not 9 months old but by 4pm we were getting twitchy when we still hadn't been given a time to go down. At 4.30 our rather cross consultant had the unwelcome job of telling us that some muppet had cancelled the procedure on Friday due to the fact that he was febrile! Duh! Feeling helpless I went to plead with the gastro team to see if they could squeeze him in only to be told they'd all gone home. Not helpful grrrrrrr.