Treatment 25
How can we be 1 year on from this – that year has gone immensely quick. Things haven’t really gotten any easier as such, but mentally Oscar is in a much better place than we were a year ago.
We requested an earlier appointment this time because it was the last day of term, it seems to have worked better and Oscar is suggesting we stick with that because his Forest School lessons are moving for the summer term to P4 on Thursdays. This will of course mean that we go to Avastin and Oscar then goes to school for the last lesson – so we will be trialling this.
It was great to see Shaz [the play therapist] was on duty when we arrived and stats and numbing cream were put on immediately.
Cannula went in on try no. 3 with another new doctor – who also admitted that our cannula trials and tribulations are in fact due to Oscar having very small “awkward” veins – so I feel this is going to continue to be a bug bear for us.
Batman and black panther visited the ward today giving out Easter eggs to all the patients which was very nice indeed, treatment started at 12.10pm and we were home by 2pm!
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION] Smiling bunny-eared Easter eggs (Credit Eric Heininger)
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