Ice Cream !

So there is such a thing as a Free Lunch...........and it happens on Sundays at St James's, where all the Yates family (excl Maddy!) enjoyed a trad Sunday lunch plus pudding on the NHS today.
It's a once-a-week treat for all visitors. The good news is that Maddy did enjoy her first food for several days - ice cream. Quite topical given the weather. Cool foods are probably all that she can tolerate at the moment, so she might try frozen lollies and yoghurt, as well as more ice cream, over the next few days.
She's looking and sounding a bit better today (yes we heard real words), but she enjoys alphabet signing, not least because relatively dim parents can't keep up with her blurred fingers and she thinks that's funny....
Her hair is starting to drop out, but again, given the weather that seems almost like good timing. Still seeing the positives, as she has done from the outset, Maddy appreciates the benefit of not having to concern herself about shaving her armpits.
She changed her course of antibiotics last night (Saturday) as she is still running a high temperature and her neutrophil count is effectively zero. This means that the 5 day clock is reset- so earliest return home will now be Thursday. There's a small chance she might not get home at all before starting her third cycle.