Catherine's blog: Christmas Day

Friday, 26 December 2008

Christmas Day

Catherine has decided that she loves Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer but thinks that Father Christmas is ''a bit scary'' because he comes into bedrooms at night time. So, rather than leaving a mince pie out for Father Christmas, she left a carrot and a bowl of water outside for Rudolph instead. In the morning, she was so excited to see if Rudolph had eaten his carrot, that she left half her presents to go outside and have a look.

On Christmas Eve, she went to bed physically shaking with excitement. However, she still didn't like the idea of Father Christmas at all. She couldn't understand why she couldn't see him and thought he was afraid of children! We managed to persuade her that Father Christmas was only going to go into the living room with her presents, but she still woke us up in the night because she didn't want him in her bedroom.

We have had a very special Christmas with Catherine. She has been well all through Christmas and her blood counts were very good which meant she has been leaping around all over the place (well, as much as she is able to)! She had some 'fizzily feet' (side effect of chemotherapy) on Christmas Day, but it was only minor and went away quickly. She thoroughly enjoyed opening her presents and had fun playing with her friend in the afternoon.

Thankyou for your continuing prayers for her. We are so relieved that she didn't have to spend Christmas in hospital, and because of Catherine's situation, I have to say I ended up thinking about and praying for the families and staff in hospital a lot this Christmas. We have our next dose of chemotherapy on Monday - Doxorubicin and Vincristine.

1 comment:

Michelle said...: Hello Catherine, Dawn and Mark, Thank you so much for the christmas card that you sent to our family. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading through Catherine's blog and it's great to see that you are all so positive and that Catherine describes things so similarly to Mia... like wobbly mdicine and fizzly feet!!! It was really great that you got in toch and we would like you to share our journey with us via Mia's website at http://www.everybodylovesmia.co.uk Mia is due to start her first intensification on 2nd Jan but we like yourselves got lucky with Christmas and had a great time at Home!!! Lots of love and positve thoughts coming your way XXXXX Michelle, Scott, Harvey and MIA X; 27 December 2008 at 12:45

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