2008 October « Aria MacDonald

YAY, we finally had some good news.  Aria’s blood perked up and the team let us go home earlier than the planned Friday morning.
We are so relieved and so pleased to be home.  Yesterday was just awful, mainly because of lack of sleep for me and I was missing Asher terribly. 
Aria is just dandy and [...]

Disappointment is something we are rather familar with but it is still tough to deal with.
I stayed the night with Aria last night, the first time in about a year almost.  And I don’t miss it, it was awful, only about 4 hours sleep max.  And I missed Asher, our first night apart.  But, at [...]

As Anita mentioned in the last post, its great when people help us out to allow us to do ‘normal’ things.
Tonight both Anita and I had ‘normal’ life events that we were able to make it to.
Thanks to Poppa and Auntie A, who took Aria and Asher under their wings and took great care of [...]

Not such a good night last night, I doubt we will get home today.  Pretty disappointed.  Aria spiked a temp of 38.7 overnight and managed to pull off her dressing which she got a talking to about.
It is interesting trying to keep our family going and still try and keep commitments as best we can.  [...]

Or if I was still back in ‘only-use-your-hose-once-a-week’ Brisbane it would be Rain through the Sunshine. 
We got relief in the past 12 hours which I am so amazed by.  Both Hamish and I were really struggling yesterday.  Hamish was supposed to preach yesterday and was pretty upset about having to pull out pretty much at the [...]

We are home and straight back into life.  Yup, you guess it…..
Aria is back in hospital
So I am quickly dumping my suitcases (just got home from Australia attending my Nana’s funeral) and gathering up a bunch of stuff for Hamish and Aria and heading into Starship.
There really aren’t words right now, I am so very very [...]

Well we are over half way through Dad and Aria time.
Aria has been really good over the last few days. She has been very co-operative and happy, she sometimes asks for Mama and Ash and is trying really hard to understand what is going on.
I tell her that Mum and Asher are visiting Nana Rose in [...]

Aria, Asher and I had the privilege of attending Rebecca’sfinal weigh in this morning.  Rebecca had been shedding the kilos and in return gathering up a huge number of generous and kind sponsors to contribute to Aria’s fundraising.  30kgs in 26 weeks with over $12,000 of sponsorship at stake.
Today she hit the big 30 kgs on [...]

Aria’s great Grandmother passed away on Wednesday evening.  Aria’s full name is Aria Evelyn Pearl MacDonald.  We choose her two middle names to remember her maternal great grandmothers, both of which are now in Glory, both of which were great servants of God.
It is a sad thing that neither Aria or Asher got to meet my nana, she [...]

We have a new little tool which might prove to be handy.  Lots of people have been asking me for this and thanks to Daniel, our website wiz we now have it.
See the new box on the right hand side, enter your email address and you will get an update when our site is updated.  [...]