perspective
every now and then life comes and smacks you round the back of the head and tells you to stop whinging about your petty troubles...
yesterday my sister rang to check that i was still ok to take time off work to take a turn in looking after her 8 year old son as the "benign" lump on his shin has gotten twice the size since boxing day and is now giving him enough pain that he's had 2 doses of morphine over the weekend and can't go to school.
today he had another mri but they'd been trying to get hold of the consultant because of the new size and pain level. they did.
this evening i found out they've admitted him and in the next two days they're moving the whole family to birmingham where they're going to try and shrink the cancerous tumour (with chemo) to a size they can operate on, otherwise they're going to have to amputate.
that's all the info i have, i have a million questions but it's not desperately appropriate for me to ask them when my sister and her husband are contemplating the deliberate disabling of their eldest son.
i'm going over tomorrow to take my mum to the hospital so she can see him/ them before they move 100+ miles away...
yesterday my sister rang to check that i was still ok to take time off work to take a turn in looking after her 8 year old son as the "benign" lump on his shin has gotten twice the size since boxing day and is now giving him enough pain that he's had 2 doses of morphine over the weekend and can't go to school.
today he had another mri but they'd been trying to get hold of the consultant because of the new size and pain level. they did.
this evening i found out they've admitted him and in the next two days they're moving the whole family to birmingham where they're going to try and shrink the cancerous tumour (with chemo) to a size they can operate on, otherwise they're going to have to amputate.
that's all the info i have, i have a million questions but it's not desperately appropriate for me to ask them when my sister and her husband are contemplating the deliberate disabling of their eldest son.
i'm going over tomorrow to take my mum to the hospital so she can see him/ them before they move 100+ miles away...