How's Maddy doing ?

Madeleine was diagnosed with an abdomenal tumour on her dad's birthday, 12 May, 2005. On 31 May, this was confirmed as NHL, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Large B cell diffuse. Her chemotherapy treatment started that same evening. This blog gives you the latest news on just how she's doing.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Walks

Maddy continued her progress today and seems in fine form. Those avid comment-readers amongst you may have noticed that she made her own comment on Wednesday.
She might even start posting her own blog entries soon - who knows?!?

The other achievement today was a couple of unassisted walks down the ward corridor. Considering her relative frailty and the fact that she's been bed-ridden for the last 5 days or so - that is no mean feat.
She has continued to eat as well as could be hoped - weetabix this morning - some fish & chips later in the day - very pleasingly her weight is up by 2kgs.

The more experienced blog readers among you might well have sussed out what all this means. With her very best interests at heart, the medics at Jimmy's won't allow Maddy to enjoy feeling well for too long - her next chemo cycle is looming.....

5 Comments:

  • At 11:23 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    thats well cool i cant wait intill your writing your own blogs! i havent had fish and chips 4 ages and reading that has made me feel really hungary!i bet your glad you dont have to run around the countryside in the mud!('fun'run) hope your feeling betta and il try and ring you tonight.
    luv ya loads nicola xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

     
  • At 4:11 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hello Julie hello Chris hello Robert hello Bertie. Hope you're all alright. It was great to see some of you at the wet but brilliant Make Poverty History demo in Hebden. All thanks to Janet O and the organising team.

    Deeply shocked to hear about the bombs in London today. Glad we've got badly spelt blog comments to cheer us up a tiny bit.

    kerry xxx

     
  • At 5:57 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maddy is up!!!! you should have been at school and joined in with the completely pointless, muddy, boring, crawl today at school (oops i meen the fun run!) and as you know from all the adverts you can face anything if you eat weetabix in the morning! its great to see you putting comments on the blog. it was lovely to see you on sunday-i hope your taking good care of your wand! dont let it fall upside down or all the magic will fall out! id love to come and see u again mabye one day after school next week...?
    keep it up your doing soooooooo well

    love you 2bits

    Mayxxxxxx
    ps Sorry bout all the weird things my mum keeps saying!
    pps sorry i wrote so much!

     
  • At 7:55 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Julie, Chris and boys and of course Maddy, Take no notice of May - the fun run was a hoot. I should know, as I have writer's cramp from working all afternoon at the finish funnel. It was like a scene from Gregory's Girl (anyone old enough to remember?) with a rabbit on crutches marshalling on the front drive and Wesley dressed as a slug. Or was it a caterpillar? We are going to do some fundraising in your honour on Saturday at Mytholmroyd gala - watch this space. Love, Eileen and the Burnips

     
  • At 1:52 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Julie

    It's Cym. Heard via David about Maddy and glad to see you're all keeping your chin up. The pics are great. Maddy keep up the good work!

    Thinking of you all.

     

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