Hello Everyone, once again i've had to blag a computer to borrow to post this, so sorry if I haven't replied to any emails recently.

Bradley is doing absolutely brilliantly, I bought him home from hospital on Monday afternoon after having his PICC line removed and getting the all clear from the physio's. He almost gave me and his dad a heart attack trying to show off at the hospital by rolling down a hill in his wheelchair and then not being able to stop as he approached the road - he really scared himself too, so hopefully he won't do that again!!!!

He's been given loads of mobility aids by the physio's to help him get around the house, but he's a determined guy and he's doin most things just with the crutches and managing to bear some weight through his better leg. His wound on his left leg has healed very well, and he has an awesome scar to show off. His other leg is now in a cast that goes from toe to thigh but has a hinge in the middle so that he can bend it which is a lot easier, this will probably be on for approx another 6 weeks when he will go back to see Mr Briggs at RNOH.

We are waiting to see how Bradley does with this last round of chemo, it is a lower dose and a different package of chemo, so we don't yet know whether it will affect him the same as before regarding neutropenia, hopefully it won't and he'll have an easier 8 cycles than the last 6.

Between Rich and I we have some photo's which we need to load onto the computer then we can put some of them onto the blog - they're not too bad to look at - no blood or yuk!!!

Must go now, will update again sometime, hopefully get internet running soon at home.

Bye Mikki and Brad and gang.

Hello, it's been a while since i've been able to access the blog. We have no internet connection running at our new house yet and also my computer has gone a bit wonky so i need to get someone to have a look at that too. I'm currently using the computer at the hospital.

This post may get a bit long winded but i'll try and update you all with what has been happening.

Bradley went into RNOH as planned on the 1st April and was settled in and we had an early night in anticipation for a long day ahead on the Monday. Brad was starved all day Monday, and at the last minute his op was cancelled due to a low WCC. Mr Briggs had come in special as we knew to do this op for Brad and he said he was happy to come back asap whenever they could find a suitable theatre slot and Brad's counts had come back up.

Surgery was rescheduled for Wednesday morning, Brad went down at 9.15 and we heard back just before 1pm that he was in recovery. Surgical team came round and informed us that all went absolutely fine, everything was as they were expecting and there were no problems during surgery.
They took 6 inches/15cm of his tibia and all of the tumour away and replaced it with his fibula from his left leg, his right leg is in a below knee cast at the moment and he will go into a full leg cast on tuesday, then he'll be encouraged to get up and start to try and get around.

Brad was transferred to ITU for 24 hours and returned to the ward Thursday lunchtime. He was very very funny while in ITU, because of the morphine pump he was using, he was still listening to everything that was going on around him, and making the funniest of comments, and saying really strange things, we'll remind him of this one day and no doubt he will deny all knowledge - ha ha ha.

He's been given excercises to do by the physio and he seems to be coping with these ok, he has been having some problems with his PICC line being blocked, so on Sunday afternoon he was transferred by ambulance to UCLH to see if they could unblock it or possibly replace it.

They have managed to unblock it, and are checking the line for possible infections etc, if all is ok, he will be transferred back to RNOH tomorrow to have the full cast fitted and then hopefully home towards the end of next weekend.

I'll try and keep this blog posted, but this depends on finding computer that says ''yes''.

Bye for now - Michaela XXXXX