2007 September « Aria MacDonald

They say you don’t appreciate what you’ve got to its gone, and it is true when it comes to Aria’s central line too.
When she has a central line it is so easy to access Aria’s blood stream for all the test that she needs to go through while she is in hospital. Without it poor [...]

There has been a big event since the last post.
Aria’s line is gone
Turns out the reaction to the imms was really a line infection. Seems like the bugs from the last one a couple of weeks ago were hiding and the only way to kill them completely was to remove the line. [...]

Four was the number of shots Aria had for her routine 15 months immunisations. It was not fun for her or us. She was very brave and fought pretty hard as our girl does. Unfortunately she has had a fairly rough reaction to them, very high temps last night and tonight. [...]

Last night Hamish and I were privileged to attend the AIC Fashion Show that was put on by the Interact Club. The profits from the night went to Aria and what a night it was!! We had such a great time! It was a full on show with models, music and the [...]

Sometimes Hamish and I say this to each other in our moments of self pity. Occasionally we have a Pity Party for Two as we reflect on our troublesome life lately. First Aria getting pretty sick and nearly losing her line, the news of her fractured leg and possible bone trouble, other dramas [...]

Our car has been found!!  We got a call today saying it was found yesterday, not sure where or by who yet.  It sounds like minimal damage depending on how rough they treated the engine.  Anyway it is good news we are relieved and thankful for insurance although the $500 excess is huge bummer in [...]

Firstly Telecom has kindly decided to donation $1 million dollars to charity in light of their recent dramas with their customers emails. Xtra customers can nominate charities to receive the money and if you would like to nominate Aria we would be grateful!!
Here is the word from Telecom:
You can vote for your preferred [...]

Our family gathered on Friday night for the Warriors game. Aria has two cousins, Tivoli and Venisio. Tiv is 4 and V is 10 months. Tiv sometimes asks questions about Aria like ‘does she do poos yet?’ or ‘where are her tubes?’ I explained her tubes as simply as I could [...]

In the previous post we updated that the bone scan had picked up ’something’ in Aria’s left leg. We went expecting to receive news that the Staph bugs had spread to her leg bone. This would have been bad news meaning at least 6-8 weeks of antibiotics.
Instead came different news, we are told [...]

Well Aria’s remarkable recovery has had a hopefully small unexpected hiccup. The docs where concerned that the Staph bugs might have seeding and spread to other parts of her body like her bones and heart. They ordered a bone scan and of course didn’t think they would find anything because Aria is so [...]