Hope @ Yorkhill
Hope has spent the last 3 days in hospital receiving treatment that may strengthen her bones. On Monday morning we took her to Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) in Glasgow to begin her treatment. After showing her around the ward she was given her first ‘Pamidronate’ infusion; this meant she was on a drip for about 5 hours. She was still on the drip when I went home (Gillian stayed with her) and she looked fine but when I returned the next morning poor Hope looked dreadful, she was shaking and sweating and vomiting. We had been warned of possible side effects but never expected to see any. Her Doctor came round and said she would be fine in an hour, and sure enough, she was. She was eating and laughing and playing. Later that day she had her second course of treatment but this time the side effects were not quite so bad, just a slightly high temperature. Yesterday she received her third and last course of treatment and then we waited to see if they would let her back home. Finally at around 8:30pm the said we could take her home. Hope was so brave and the only thing she complained about was that there was no tomato sauce for her chips. Hope will have to go though all this again in another 4 months and for a couple of years they say but it’s all over for now. One good thing about our time at Yorkhill was the amazing views we had of Glasgow from the hospital windows.
