Back at the hospital

It's been a while since our last post, as we have had a 7 week break from the hospital. We were back at the Royal London last Wednesday for Fintan to have an examination under anaesthetic, in order to see whether things were still stable since his radiotherapy treatment and last check up.

It was mixed results, Fintan's right eye is stable and looking good, but the left eye has a slightly suspicious area which Mr Hungerford needs to monitor. Therefore, Fintan will be back in London in 3 weeks for another examination. If there is activity in this suspicious area, it will be treatable.

Fintan is definitely becoming more aware of hospital days and what is going to happen. When we arrived he was very upset, determined not to stay, tried to put his coat back on and get back into his push chair! However, he didn't take long to calm down and was soon playing with all the toys on the ward.

Over the last 7 weeks Fintan has changed quite a lot. He's becoming more of a boy and less of a baby all the time. His vocal skills are more in volume than in any breadth of vocabulary at the moment, "Nooooo" being a clear favourite along with "Cow-k" which normally means "milk"...makes sense I suppose!

Fintan has a post-anaesthetic sulk!

Hurrah!