Zoe: Heroes Wanted (+69)

Below is a link for the Anthony Nolan Trust. Just click on it and you can register to be on the bone marrow register. We'll never know who Sonny's donor was but something prompted him once to want to save a life and thank god it did.

www.anthonynolan.org

Gavin:D'ya want another tea Stevie? (+68)

The noobs are starting to get on my tits now. One of them has decided to prop their door open with a bin which, as all the others hadn't thought of it, followed suit. This means that whatever little Kylie decides to cough up (or indeed her emphysemic granddad who lollops around the ward like a wet fart) will be shared by all the other little Jason's. Of course, it's early days for them and, after a particularly nasty bout of paraflu or something they'll all be saying 'I just dunno how it happened, we're like really good at being clean and stuff' as they lift their masks and mash leftover chicken nuggets into their revolting gobs. Hopefully, if Sonny keeps on being as brilliant and well as he has been for a few weeks now, we can stop paddling around the shallow end of the gene pool and get back to some proper people. The good news is that unless this blog gets featured in the Real Lives! section of Take A Break, they'll never know what I think of them.

Gavin: Form is temporary, class is permanent (+67)

Despite the blood results from Sonny's liver continuing to rise, no one seems concerned apart from me and Zo, so he was up again bright and early and we snuck out around 11. Today, rather than him keep making tons of food, we decided to eat some of it up so went for a picnic on Hampstead Heath (dahlings). It was such a great day that it was really hard for for us all to say goodbye to him again at 6... we still have no idea when we'll be able to tuck him up in his own bed and enjoy a bottle of wine. Still, the pictures tell the story of the day (check out the reverse cross in pic 4... either foot boys, either foot) except for the last one, which is him watching the Charity Shield last year streamed on a laptop in the Italian Hospital. We watched this years' today in the comfort of our own home and it was good fun watching the tired old lags from both teams barely make it to 90 minutes. Arsenal's 11 year olds will run rings around them this season.

Gavin: Fat duckies (+66)

It's noob week this week on Elephant with 5 admissions in as many days. Which means eating me tea is now punctuated by large, tired looking women in towelling sweat pants asking me how long have you er, been here? I'm sure they'll soon learn that I'm not remotely interested in little Alisha and her troubles and will let me enjoy my Waitrose reduced fat Saag Aloo in peace. Although I nearly couldn't manage such culinary delights after todays efforts with Heston Bloomin'heck. Alongside Ruby, he rustled up the dough and they made some delicious sausage and salami pizzas. Then, while Ruby worked on the sign for the new restaurant, he ploughed on, turning out a tomato and onion salad (with fresh mozzarella) and making his own pesto from scratch. We're obviously delighted that he's not just learning how to cook but how to be terribly middle class at the same time.

Zoe: So what now? (+65)

We had Ward Round today which means we get a little face to face time with the consultant. Our BMT consultant has just changed as they do two months on the ward at a time. Bit gutted as the last one was the nuts but the new one is dead good too and luckily we already know him from when we were first admitted under Haematology/Oncology - oh those were the days... Anyway, we discussed the excellent PET result and what it means for Sonny apart from being very nice. No one is really sure so Sonny will be discussed at a large meeting of people that might know at UCH next week and in the meantime they are going to slow down the rate at which they take him off the immune suppressing drugs. This is to prevent him getting GVHD. Do you remember we wanted it before to fight the Hodkins? Well now we don't need it so much as there isn't any to fight.

In other news, an ultra sound scan this morning showed that his liver was enlarged but they think this is down to the colossal amount of drugs he's been on. If it gets any worse they'll jiggle with his medicines over the weekend. Home still seems a long way off. Sonny would really like to be allowed home for good now but we know we've got a long way to go still so as hard as it is to admit, we're quite happy with this little arrangement for the time being. It's like checking into a B&B where the staff wear fancy blue uniforms every night, complete with jams with peel off lids and individual packs of butter.

Zoe: Feel the love (+64)

We wouldn't be where we are now without the support and love of all our friends and family. Thank you so much for all your kind messages. We are rubbish at replying to the them all but we really want you to know that your words are an enormous comfort and crutch. Your kindness is never ending and today's pictures show Sonny opening the biggest box of his life this morning and cooking gnocchi from a wondeful cookbook a chum gave him a few months ago. Thanks guys, don't ever underestimate what your love means to us.

Zoe: Wishes do come true (+63)

This wise and beautiful lady is Sonny's great grandmother and she was 90 today. Everyone went to quite a bit of effort today on the present front but I reckon the Anderson section of the family won hands down with our birthday news... sorry am I gloating? Ha, ha - I don't care, tra la la.

Gavin: PET scan results (+62)

Sonny is cancer free. He is in complete remission. The PET scan is showing no metabolic activity. He is cancer free. He is in complete remission....

It still hasn't really sunk in yet. The doctor saw Zoe this afternoon and she told Sonny and I. We were all in tears. I went and found the Doc later to hear it from the horses mouth and there was lots of handshaking and words like 'delighted' being thrown around. It's all the more poetic to receive this news today as it's exactly a year to the day that Sonny was diagnosed with this pile of shit.

There's still a long way to go and of course, the trade off to get this far is the BMT which will now be our focus for the next six months but, if that path is now made of gold instead of treacle, we're happy.

It's been a hell of a year for us all but remember there's only one person that's had 14 general anaesthetics, 20 gallons of chemo, at least 5,000 pills, the best part of a year in hospital and a completely new blood system. And that my friends is the most remarkable little boy I know. If you have a drink today, raise a glass to him. He deserves it.

Zoe: Pet hate hate hate (+61)

Sonny had his transplant exactly two months ago. To celebrate we went for a PET scan at UCH. As you know from previous entries Sonny hates the whole experience and was incredibly anxious. Today's was just as awful and made all the more nasty by the radiographer squirting the nuclear medicine all over Sonny instead of into his line... apparently its fine and Chernobyl was just blown out of all proportion by the media. All they needed to do was just wipe it off with a paper towel. Just the nail biting wait for the results to look forward to - JESUS.

Gavin Mother knows best (+60)

About a week ago, Sonny wrote an email to the ad agency Mother about their Mr Sleep and the Zzz Squad adverts for Travelodge. Basically, he figured that if you got a Mr Sleep teddy and put it on every pillow in the rooms, more kids would pester their parents to stay with Travelodge rather than say, Premier Inn. I thought it was worth sending and today, we received a response in the post. Not only did they hand write (yes, Hand Write) a two page letter from Mr Sleep himself promising to provide Teddies for every pillow in Great Ormond street, they also mocked up a Contract of Employment for Sonny to be retained as a Sleep Consultant and printed out 20 or so postcards signed by the each of the characters. Considering most people think creatives swan around East London in Nike Terminators drinking Brahma and saying how the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs are so over, this should restore anyone's faith in human kindness. I just hope the team were as excited putting it together as we were to get it.

Below is the original TV ad, the letter From Mr Sleep, the postcards and a response from Sonny that we posted back today. I love you Mother, seriously, I think you're brilliant.

ps: As with all the pictures, you can click on them to see them a bit bigger...