Our son-in-law Matt has just written the following update on the last few days.
After 4 lovely days at home we are now back in the Sheffield Children's Hospital, this time on M3 Ward.
Over the last few days we've had lots of cuddles, enjoyed trips to cafes, played lots of games (snap!), watched plenty of films, broke up a couple sibling spats and enjoyed the momentary pretence that our lives were normal again.
Today Phoebe is going to have her stem cells harvested. She will be attached to a machine most of today and tomorrow which will take her blood, separate the stems cell from it and pump remaining back into her body. The stem cell will be kept frozen and given back to her after each dose of chemo in June when it begins.
Pray for us today as PJ (Phoebe Joy) has to sit still for several hours while the machine does its work. Pray that we get to know nurses and other families on this new ward quickly and make new friends. Pray for us as we begin the long treatment process to cure PJ from her cancer. If all goes well with the harvesting, radiotherapy will begin Wednesday.
"Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."
Isaiah 40:28-31
Big hugs!
