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After an eventful week, Eloise has now been discharged from St George’s PICU and has been transferred back to the Royal Marsden for further recovery from her high dose chemotherapy. Thank you to everyone for your prayers, love and messages. We are genuinely humbled and immensely grateful for all the love and support, including allContinue reading “Discharged from PICU and now back at the Marsden for recovery”

Eloise is still in intensive care but is much more responsive. She’s awake and talking, and watching some of her favourite programmes. She is very weak, and hasn’t yet had a feed, but we feel she has turned a corner. She was taken off the additional oxygen support and is stable. The stem cell transplantContinue reading “Positive signs from intensive care. Go Eloise!”

Update from intensive care – stem cell transplant today at noon. Eloise continues in intensive care. Her EEG came back with no active seizure activity which is great. She was a little more responsive, beginning last night. Unfortunately she has started vomiting a lot, including blood. The working theory is that the stomach is justContinue reading “Stem cell transplant and recovery update and prayers”

Please pray. Last night after the MRI, which came back with no change (which is good news) Eloise was taken off the sedation and ventilator. All the other tests came back clear, indicating that the seizure was either caused be 1) her now starting to have these types of seizure or 2) a response toContinue reading “Please pray – Eloise still needing intensive care”

Eloise is now in St George’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and is sedated and on a ventilator. She’s in an isolated room due to being on high dose chemo and therefore having a higher infection risk. Unfortunately Eloise ran a temperature during the night so the Drs need to do lots of checks forContinue reading “Please keep praying: Update from intensive care”

Eloise unfortunately, had a very long and severe seizure this evening, out of the blue. The most worrying thing was her lack of breathing.The team at the Royal Marsden have been brilliant and have sedated and ventilated her. She had a CT scan which is fine and shows no changes. She is currently being transferredContinue reading “Please pray for Eloise!”

Eloise has had a worrying seizure at tea time today and is currently being transferred to pediatric intensive care at St George’s. (There is no PICU at the Royal Marsden). She is currently in a stable condition under sedation. Please be praying that medical staff would know the best course of action and that sheContinue reading “Transfer to PICU”

So Eloise has had 3 days of high dose chemotherapy, and she is doing very, very well. She is walking around, (attached to stickman), has, so far, avoided being sick and has settled back into full-time hospital life.  She has been getting to know many of the nurses and Doctor’s names and it is lovelyContinue reading “Positive start to high dose chemo but challenging few days ahead”

It’s been another busy/full week for Eloise. In chronological order: On Monday Eloise had her ophthalmology appt and then her MRI scan. Her eyes are all looking good so far, which is fantastic. Eloise did really well in going nil by mouth until 3pm and had her MRI at St George’s. They also slightly adjustedContinue reading “MRI, Proton Beam Therapy and High Dose Chemo Update.”

As we mentioned in the blog yesterday, tomorrow Eloise will have an MRI to provide a baseline for her high dose chemotherapy.   It will also be helpful to check up on her hydrocephalus.  As this is another ‘key-moment’ we thought we would write another blog to outline it further and ask people to pray… EloiseContinue reading “Prayers for MRI tomorrow (Monday) to show no-growth!”