Things are going well:

a) I went to an Abba tribute night last night - it was almost a spiritual experience for me. I am thrilled to have finally found a group of girl friends in Hexham who are as childish and into naff music as much as I am. We were the ONLY members of the audience dressed up out of 350 people, but that's rural Northumberland for you...
b) Anna has stayed well for almost four weeks! She caught a cold earlier this week and so we anticipated a trip to the RVI, but so far she is fine.
c) Katie is having a baby in May ( I feel like this entry should be in flashing neon!). We are now moving back to London, so that we can dote on him/her to the required standard (only joking Lucy!).

We have a date in late November for seeing Anna's surgeon, the sainted Mr Bruce Jaffray, to discuss the proposed fundolication, but he must be pretty bullish about it as Anna is already on his list for the procedure. We may be looking at a December op and up to two weeks in hospital, so I am getting my Christmas shopping now!

In the meantime, we have been going through Anna's history to see if anything comes up as another possible cause for her problems. What we can't understand is that if she has reflux (most severe in infants) then why didn't she have these respiratory problems before the age of 11 months? If Mr Jaffrey advises us to say ok to Anna's op then we will go for it, but we currently have real doubts as to whether it will achieve anything. Hopefully, time will prove us wrong.

Janie
xxx