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Yesterday, Eloise’s school (Rydes Hill Preparatory School and Nursery)  marked the 2 year anniversary of Eloise’s tumour being removed, by awarding her a special girdle in the main school assembly.  It was so honouring of the school.  The Headteacher explained to the whole school a little of what Eloise had been through, calling her aContinue reading “Eloise honoured at school”

2 years ago tomorrow Eloise had surgery to remove her brain tumour. A high grade cancerous tumour in the middle of her brain (literally) that neurosurgeons across London and the South East said they were unable to remove … but on March 16th 2021 in Liverpool, despite the odds, Eloise had her tumour removed. ThatContinue reading “2 years on from Eloise’s major surgery – how has our perspective changed?”

Following Eloise’s MRI in late January, we had a phone consultation with the neurosurgeon last week to go over the results. Wonderfully Eloise’s scan showed no recurrence of the tumour and even some improvements to some of the peripheral CSF fluid levels. This is simply brilliant news and we are delighted. This feels like aContinue reading “MRI Update”

It’s been a full few weeks but overall Eloise has been doing excellently. She’s really made some progress and has turned the corner recently… she has much much, more energy than she’s had for the past 2 years and her sassy character is coming out. This also means we are dealing with a few moreContinue reading “Prayers for Friday and beyond”

The December in-and-out of hospital continued, with Eloise getting both a UTI and viral infection (at the same time) during the week running up to Christmas. But after another night in hospital, some IV antibiotics and some great care, we were home and had a lovely Christmas with Mel’s family (at Mel’s Mum’s house). WeContinue reading “Happy 2023!”

Eloise recovered symptomatically from Flu A last week and by the weekend was doing well again. Thank you to those of you who prayed. Eloise actually had the non-live flu vaccine (a jab) a couple of days before she was admitted to hospital with flu, so the jab might have just helped her get overContinue reading “Little update”

We’ve been silent for the past few weeks but not because it’s been quiet – it’s been an extreme winter infection hospital admission yo-yo. Eloise has had 4 admissions into our local hospital in the past 6 weeks or so with infections. 3 weeks ago Eloise had a few days/nights in hospital following another feverContinue reading “Infection yo-yo”

The scan showed no evidence of any tumour regrowth! Hallelujah and … phew! It’s been a pretty hectic and stressful past couple of weeks and these were the lines we wanted to hear. We are extremely grateful to the NHS for their combined and prompt response to Eloise’s seizures restarting, resulting in rapid appointments with:Continue reading “No Evidence of Disease on MRI scan! (…but not all clear)”

It’s been a busy and hugely challenging week, where Eloise has had seizures almost everyday. The reoccurrence of Eloise’s seizures have accelerated a lot of conversations, hospital admissions and tests. Yesterday we saw Eloise’s Epilepsy consultant, who graciously gave us a lot of her time for us to pepper her with a lot of ourContinue reading “MRI brought forward – please pray and ask others to pray too”

Thank you for those that have been praying. It was a challenging day yesterday but Eloise is home and the CT scan showed no hydrocephalus. We had a nerve racking few hours as were told the CT scan showed ‘pathological changes’ that needed comparing with previous scans, so these were sent to St George’s. AContinue reading “Eloise at home”