Time flies when you're having fun!!!

Time flies when you're having fun!!! Well that's my excuse for not posting on here for a week!! Craig and Kira have been here and there has been so much going on, kids got trips etc at school.

Anyway, all going well to date, Adam is getting quite a bit of discomfort around his ears now and they have a red (sunburnt) looking ring around them, this is a result of the radiotherapy and possibly the sun too. He has steroid cream (mild dose - so no demon child!!) and also a moisturising cream. Other than that he is still holding his own, and still very active - we were looking for signs of tiredness but we are still looking!!! Typical Adam, can't do anything by the book!!!

Here is a round up of our activities over the last week and a bit and some photos too. A few of Scooby and Scrappy too of their antics the last week!

Thanks for taking the time to check this blog and special mention to Jim (man we met at the Western) - thanks for remembering and taking the time. It is appreciated - and yeah you are right I can eat!!! LOL

Ok, where did I get up to before.....??? errmmm..... oh yeah, sportsday......so next ...

THURSDAY (12th) - Today we had our weekly trip to the sick kids, Adams bloods were fine again this week but we were upset in learning that Dr Buddy was returning to Dundee the following week, boo hoo, he is great. After the sick kids we had our local community newspaper visit us as they would like to publish a story about Adam to let people know how he is etc, and also gives us the opportunity to thank everyone locally for their continued support too, using the latest school picture in the paper too, it is lovely.

FRIDAY - After school today we went bowling with Craig and Kira, Kira has never bowled before and I think she really enjoyed it, needless to say Uncle Craig won - I mean he couldn't possibly let one of his nephews beat him, he would never hear the end of it!!

SATURDAY - This was our community funday at the community centre, I took the boys round and Paul and Marc were in charge of a stall, thanks Michelle for making loads of tablet for us to hand in, it is so lovely the boys bought 10 bars back!!!

SUNDAY - We had a BBQ at Stuart and Dionne's, it was a lovely day and Uncle Ron and Aunty Ann were there from Kilmarnock and Auntie Jean was there too. The kids ran themselves ragged for 4 hours, they had so much fun.

MONDAY & TUESDAY - These two days were a little quieter as Craig and Kira decided to go up north for a day or two, borrowed the car, tent and sleeping bags and headed off. Normal routine for us though!

WEDNESDAY - What a great day! After radio therapy we had to go to school with Adam to "Meet the Teacher", he is very lucky he will be in the same class as his best mate, Calum, and they are very, very lucky to be getting Mrs Howie as their teacher - she will have to keep an eye on those two cheeky monkeys!! After leaving the school we took adam, Calum, his mum and nana for lunch at Brewsters - it was brill, the boys were arguing over silly things, brought a tear to my eye seeing them acting so normal with each other - ha ha. After lunch we popped into Ocean Terminal shopping centre and paid a visit to the build a bear workshop where Calum and Adam bought each other a teddy/monkey for starting school. Adam got a monkey, which he named Ollie after calum's toy monkey Ollie and Calum named his teddy Adam after his best mate! So cute!

Ok, a few more days still to go, will pop back later to do these - I promise!!!!!

Scooby and Scrappy.................what have they been up to?????

Monday - bowling/skittles

Blowing bubbles on Tuesday

Scrappy in training - skipping on Wednesday.

Thursday was gun fight at the OK Corral - water pistols!!!

Friday is card day - playing snap!


Lynn x

Two thirds done!

Well this is the end of week 4 of Radiotherapy and I can't believe the time has gone so fast.

Another very busy week for us, look forward to getting away from it all in a few weeks time.

So, lets see, what we've been up to....

TUESDAY - This was the annual taxi day out for kids. One our many amazing friends Dode (taxi driver) took Adam, Scott, Spike and myself to Yellow Craigs for a fantastic day out. We were also joined by Dode's wife Sharon, daughter Shelley and grandson Lewis.

We started of getting picked up by Dode at the house, going to the Western for our Radiotherapy (even Scooby and Scrappy were at the beach today!!!!)

and then onto Murrayfield Stadium to join the procession of taxi's all dressed up with hundreds of balloons and stuff. It was a sight to behold.

During the drive all the way down to Yellow Craigs, we stopped off in Musselburgh at Luca for ice cream and a water fight. Everyone had water guns and as we had been skooshing people all down the road we had run out of water so had to quickly refill and be ready!

On arrival at Yellow Craigs there were marques set up with food and drinks for eveyone, pony rides, shows, chaplins disco bus and loads more. We had a ball, even made it down onto the beach!!

Thank you so much to everyone for such a fun day,especially Dode! You are the man!! Ha ha!

WEDNESDAY - Another busy and interesting day, Uncle Craig and Kira came with us to the Western this morning to see our daily process of treatment with Adam. Think it was a little early for them both though!! Ha ha!!

After his Radiotherapy we then went to the school as it was sports day for the boys,

Scooby was up for the Egg and Spoon race but Adam just beat him!!

The boys all did really well at their sports and got loads of 1st, 2nds and 3rds between them. To top it all their house group, St Nicholas, won!!! Woo hoo !!! Go the reds!!!

Adam with his "sister" Megan (in yellow) and her cousin Rosie at sports.

More to follow tomorrow, I am beat!!!

Lynn xx

So much to tell.....

Apologies once again, had a busy few days.....am exhausted!!! So where are we?...

Friday - had a great day with June yet again. Scooby and Scrappy were up to no good again! This morning we found them playing dominoes!!



After the hospital Adam went to nursery, when we went to collect him we were greeted by a few of the mums and the staff and given a card and envelope. The card was from everyone telling us to have a day out on them! Inside the envelope was a large sum of money which had originally been raised for the nursery garden by the kids doing an obstacle course. After collecting it all, they decided to give it to us instead. We were very taken aback and reluctantly accepted it.

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE AT NURSERY!

We realise that so many people want to help us but can't do anything physically so are helping to ease our situation financially, especially as Spike is not working at present. It has been very difficult to accept the generosity of everyone but we do understand it and would do exactly the same if the shoe were on the other foot so to speak!

Saturday - Adam and Scott went to the youth club on saturday morning and had a great time. Spike was away all day for a golf outing with the 32 club to St Michaels at Leuchars in fife. It was Leith Gala day too but I decided not to take all 4 boys on my own so the boys just played in the garden. Saturday night Spike and I went to the Lochend Golf Club for a Race Night which had been organised as a fundraiser for Adam by some very dear friends (dont need to mention names - they know who they are and how much we love them all), this night was a great success, it gave us an opportunity to see some friends whom we have not seen since Adam was diagnosed. The support we are getting from you all is amazing! Thank you so so much. The amount raised on the night staggered us! We were both in tears more than once, again at people generosity and the support. We are very lucky to have the friends we have! Adam would love to go back to South Africa and we would love to take him, the money raised on saturday alone would pay for us all to go, need to look into travel insurance for Adam though as it is a very long way to travel, maybe have to go somewhere closer like Euro Disney.

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR FEET TO EVEYONE WHO WAS REMOTELY INVOLVED IN SATURDAY NIGHT - YOU ARE AMAZING PEOPLE!

Now - on to Sunday - Uncle Craig and Kira are here!!!!!


We had quite a lazy day on Sunday, all tired after a long saturday and so we just had a nice chilled day.

On to Monday - when we arrived at the hospital this morning Scooby and Scrappy were having a party for Uncle Craig and Kira coming, unfortunately Uncle Craig and Kira were not with us this morning so we ate all the cakes ourselves!!! Hee Hee, the were delicious - June made them specially for us and Scooby and Scrappy had party poppers and everything - I forgot to take the camera but have a couple of pics on my phone but not been able to bluetooth them yet so use your imagination!!

We then took a trip through to Livingston to pick up a parcel, which we discovered they had tried to redeliver to us! We went to the shopping centre, had a walk around bought a few things then came home. Boys went out to play in the garden.

More in a bit.......

Lynn x

We are still here!!! Honest!!

Apologies, I have been so tired the last few days that I have not had the inclination to pop on to update, so sorry if you have been checking daily!

Everything has been going really well this week, think that is why I haven't been on here much too. Adam seems to be on an "up" at the moment. He is very upbeat and gets very excitable in the mornings about going to the Western, although that may be something to do with June, our fabby nurse. She never ceases to amaze us every morning with Scooby and Scrappy doing something different eveyday.....they have been playing football, playing golf, having a BBQ, having a medical to play for Sunderland AFC, been at the library, having a long lie and still in bed when we arrived, they were even hiding from us one morning and Adam had to go "seek" them! June is making our time at the Western very pleasant, as is all our "sleepy" doctors (anesthetists).

He had his bloods checked again today at the Sick Kids and they are better than last week so we are very, very happy. He seems well, a little tired maybe, but he has been in to nursery 3 times this week so far, which is brilliant and we have left him there and picked him back up so that has been even better!!

We also had a special visitor to the house today, David has been friends with Darren McCormack for many years and Darren just so happens to be a young, up and coming footballer with Hibernian FC, he has very kindly given Adam his football shirt that he has worn this season and he has signed it for him. Here is Adam with Darren's shirt and with Darren himself. Cheers Darren!








Only got 3 more sleeps until Uncle Craig and Kira arrive!! Craig says that Kira is very excited, I just hope she wont be too cold, not used to our Scottish weather, so I hope she brings the sunshine with her.

Thanks again to everyone for their continued support, feels like we have been on this journey forever already and it's actually only been 5 and a half weeks!

Will update again in a day or two!

Lynn x

End of another week!

Well. it's the end of another week. 2 down 4 more to go. All in all we had a relatively good week this week. Adam is becoming more accustomed to hospital every morning and even knows he does not have to go Saturday and Sunday.

Friday went well, after our daily trip to the Western and getting his gripper needle out we headed for nursery. They were having an Art Exhibition of all the childrens work. We got juice, tea and coffee and cream scones and chocolate crispies. After looking around all the artwork we had to negotiate with our artists a price to "buy" the pieces. All funds raised were going to our sister school in Africa. He had a great time, hopefully this is us getting back into the going to nursery routine. Going to take him a couple of times next week again, so long as he is feeling well enough.

So these pictures are priceless works of art now, which we will treasure for a lifetime.

On Saturday, Adam went to the local Youth Club for ages 5 to 8 years olds which is held round the corner from us at the Community Centre from 10.30am - 12.30pm. Scott already goes there every week but Adam only just started since turning 5. It's really good for them and I also leave them, so it's great that Adam and I are getting some time apart too. He was really excited and did really well, he joined in with most activities and was well behaved. Unfortunately at 12 noon, I got a phone call to say Adam had been sick, only bringing up his juice, so again, I think it was more the excitement than treatment. I went round and picked him up and he was munching on snack!! He felt fine!

Once they came home from the club we all had lunch. Paul and Marc had been out on their bikes for the morning too and had a good time together.

Spike was golfing at his old club, Swanston, yesterday and not teeing off until after 1pm, so I took the boys to Portobello Beach as it was scorching here yesterday. I thought they would maybe like to go paddling, walk on sand and have an ice cream - how wrong was I !!

They went in swimming!!! I had only taken 1 towel with me too, ha ha. They had a great time though, Paul ended up in his boxer shorts as his jeans got soaked. We did have an ice cream though.

We came home and had a BBQ in the garden with our neighbour, Vicky, her sister Becka and daughter Mia. It was a great way to finish of a lovely day. Spike was back from golf about 7pm just as I was getting the boys organised to come in from the garden. He had a good time at golf too.

Was a lovely day had by all.

Almost feels normal!

Lynn x

7 more sleeps 'til Uncle Craig and Kira arrive!!!