Olivia was able to enjoy another day of preschool. It’s the first time in a long time she’s actually been able to enjoy three days of preschool. She just loves it. She has some wonderful little friends there and we have been so well supported by the community there. Her teacher, Jenny, and teacher’s assistant, Hillary, have been wonderfully supportive and so helpful and compassionate towards Olivia. I can only hope that when Sarah starts preschool that she has Jenny and Hillary or teachers like them.

We spent the rest of the week busily catching up on things that desperately need to be done around the house

After arranging to book Olivia’s scans for January, James was having second thoughts. I guess there’s never really a good time for scans. However, I have to admit I too had some reservations about booking them for late January which will mark around 4 months since the previous scans. James made a few enquiries and we were informed that, given the unreliability of the MIBG radiation around the holiday period, we could be waiting up until early February for a scan. We weren’t at all keen to wait that long. If anything, we want to keep on top of the disease if something does appear on the scans (even if the doctors continue to tell us that there’s nothing they can do). Consequently, we spoke with Olivia’s doctor and she’s booked Olivia’s scans just before Christmas.