Saturday 19 July 2008

Update #20. We're all safely in Sydney

Julie and the kids arrived safely last Thursday and started medical appointments. For those who are aware of Julie's infected ear, the Doc couldn't put a grommet in on Tuesday but pierced her ear drum to minimise pressure build up. Turns out she didn't have a problem on Thursday's flight and no burst ear drum (luckily). Now she officially has a hole in her head!!!

Michael arrived today via car. Was a good trip without kids in the car!! Thought I'd test the new GPS purchased to find our way around Sydney. Only issue was for the first 30 minutes out of Adelaide, it kept nagging because I wasn't using the directions it was suggesting. Thought I'd bought a real dud!!! Anyway, found the solution - switched it from the female voice to the male voice and it worked famously from then on. Only issue then, it pointed out the pubs in each town rather than petrol stations, so trip took a day longer than it should have!!!! (...joking folks).

Not sure what's happening re: treatment yet, other than Lauren starts Radiotherapy on Wednesday. Testing and appointments until then. Been good to catch up with family. Kate & Nathan have been staying at Grandma's since arriving.

Last week Lauren got to meet Simon Goodwin (Crows Captain) with the TripleM breakfast team, Kym, Ali & Dzelde and all three kids were given a Crows gurnsey (which Nathan hasn't taken off in over a week), So much for supporting the Swans!! Lauren was interviewed by the team and we had sufficient calls & text messages to know half of Adelaide heard it. She was also on Today Tonight last Thursday for a mystery flight she did with 'Canteen' and the Crows, where she ended up going to the Crows/Collingwood game. Again enough people must have seen her speak on TV going by all the phone calls, text messages and emails.