Busy Busy Busy

Chester Zoo and Haemo too

We took Elliot to Chester Zoo on the 1st of June to join in with the Haemophilia Society North West.  Elliot loved it, not only was it a a gorgeous day sun was shining and the Animals were brilliant but we also met some lovely people and families all with different blood conditions. At lunch we managed to sit down with the Haemo peeps, it was cool to see a little boy called Declan and his lovely mummy Sammy.  Dec is 5 years old and has a port he was uber cool and full of beans playing on the park whilst I was listening to Sammy regarding all the things that she has had to deal with, one of the things that she stressed upon was when she took Dec to a hospital for emergency treatment she found it difficult to get the point across that the bleeding finger is the problem not the massive bruise on his head. I think because Haemo is quite rare a lot of the regular nurses who deal with a wide and varied amount of issues in A&E don't know to much about Haemo. We will definitely join in with Haemophilia Society outings again, I've heard the AGM is a good one as they have Haemo experts doing talks and ready to have their brained picked.

Chester Zoo 1st June

Granddad's Been Busy Too

Bradford and Halifax May 21st 

On the 7th June Elliot's Granddad went with his best mate Kev to tick off a few more Speedways on the Haemophilia Challenge and they journeyed all the way up to Scotland on their motorbikes in the pouring rain here are the pictures of the Speedways they did:

A New friend they met on the way Patrick what a cutey x

Factor 8 round 4

(Thurs 12th June) About a week after the Zoo I didn't like the look of Elliot's right arm it was bruised and swollen and feeling warmer then the average bruise so another trip to Manchester Haemo Unit (becoming second nature), whilst we were waiting Elliot made friends with a cute kid called Michael.  Nurse Alison was a bit dubious but decided to give Elli some treatment just to be safe, it cleared right up and helped with all his other bumps. Having said that a week after his arm healed his left arm is doing the same thing but I'm just taking day by day and hoping it will go of it's own accord which it seems to be and it doesn't look like it's causing Elliot any discomfort which is the main thing.

Today Elliot had his 9 month Developmental check and passed with flying colours, he's so clever  love you Elliot xxx