My Story

We met up with some friends from Guernsey outdoors in the New Forest which did us all the world of good.  The highlight for Romy

Zephyr had not long turned one when we arrived in Southampton and was still a crawling baby.  We didn’t know at that time that we

Romy has had two wobbly teeth for a few weeks.  Within the last few days they became very wobbly and we knew soon at least

Romy had her first bite of any food today, literally the first nibble of anything in exactly 6 weeks.  It wasn’t much, one nibble of

On day 30 Romy was discharged following high dose chemo.  Romy was discharged on a different anti sickness medication and it very quickly became apparent

After four and a half weeks of isolation, Romy and Zephyr were reunited. Helen & Tom

There was a lag after Romy’s stem cells were reinfused while we waited for them to engraft (travel through her body to the bone marrow

After the final day of high dose chemo there was one further 24 hours of hyper hydration alone (to flush the chemo from her body)

The treatment we have been dreading was upon us.  Romy didnt know it but this was the most toxic yet, and came with a long