Never, ever make a plan..... Tomorrow's chemo is no longer tomorrow but Thursday, maybe.... Seems Addenbrooks forgot Lola needed another tumour check, kidney test and heart ultrasound prior to any more medication - a Christmas blip, I think. Tomorrow morning, Lola and I will be up bright and early to be at Addenbrooks for 8am. They will cram the tests into one day - MRI, GFR and echocardiogram - and then we'll zoom home again for another day of school, before we head back up there on Thursday morning for Round 5! More unpacking and packing of bags...

The girls have been super-brave tonight and giggled their way through second doses of flu and swine flu jabs. Lola hopped on the scales in the nurse's room too and discovered she'd hit a grand weight of 31.5kg - just wondering what nanny put in her cooking. We celebrated with BIG plates of fish and chips, healthy eating is absolutely a thing of the past! Just hoping they don't ask me to step on for a weigh in at Addenbrooks tomorrow!

Oh, and heard from the oncologist that they managed to collect a really good stem cell harvest last week - 4.4 units when they needed to take at least 2. Not sure what units stem cells are measured in, but double sounds fantastic to me. They are now frozen and ready for use post-surgery, should they be necessary.

I am becoming accustomed to not going to work.... just for now! Sadly, my house is messier, the washing pile taller than ever and the bare christmas tree still hiding in the corner (can't believe I have confessed to that!). Being at home for a week hasn't changed me into a domestic goddess...The difference is, I don't really mind! I have however, taken and collected the girls from school, had Lola home for lunch and taken her for appointments and spent fewer evenings on the phone making arrangements for childcare which inevitably need to be changed again the next day. And I know, next week post-chemo, when school is not an option, I will be able to devote my time properly to looking after them all without feeling torn or guilty and maybe even with fainter grey shadows under my eyes! Thanks Sara, for the nudge...