The Journey So Far

After a couple of months of “not being 100%” then 2 weeks of diagnosis at Lady Cilento (LCCH), on 12 November 2015, my youngest of three children, Violet(6) was diagnosed with stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a tumorous cancer slightly larger than a tennis ball (78 x 66 x 83mm) growing on Violet’s adrenal gland on her left kidney. Being stage 4 the cancer has metastasised and is in all her bones and marrow. Childhood cancer is rare, and neuroblastoma in kids older than 2 is rarer. ...

1 February 2016 · 2 min · CraigCraig

A Day in The Life

Re-posted from FB note from 28 Dec 2015. Depending on the day and where we are I’ve tried to capture our “new normal”, how our daily routine has changed and what it looks like as well as uploaded some photos. There is so much more that goes on and happens, but hopefully this gives you a little bit of an idea. At this stage a chemo cycle is 3 weeks long, 3-5 days of chemo as an inpatient hospital then 2ish weeks of “recovery” at home. Every week we have a day as an outpatient in clinic to have a check, get supplies/medications and replace dressings. Violets treatment will be 5 cycles like this, then surgery to remove the tumor then another chemo round before radiation and a few more chemo rounds. After that there is antibody therapy. ...

28 December 2015 · 5 min · CraigCraig

Feature images

Hopefully you will find enough information about how to set images in your blog here. This is an example of a post which includes a feature image specified in the front matter of the post. The feature image spans the full-width of the page, and is shown with the title on permalink pages: feature-img: "assets/img/feature-img/desk-messy.jpeg" thumbnail: "assets/img/thumbnails/feature-img/desk-messy.jpeg" You can also use a thumbnail, a smaller version of the same image to improve loading of the page. The thumbnail will also be used when you share your article on other platform (linkedin, whatsapp, facebook, …). ...

2 min · CraigCraig