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Hope you have a wonderful day and a great year ahead...





With lots of love xx

Tomorrow I have to attend a meeting in Guildford so tonight I am staying in Wembley in a hotel which is where Ian often resides during the week...

Here are a couple of views from my hotel window this evening...





Matthew also finished his last A level today, so he will be celebrating tonight!

I enjoyed another gloriously hot day today, though some on our tour seemed to think it was a little too hot!!
We started the day with a trip to L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue a little village situated on an island in the middle of the Sorgue River, apparently it is known as the Venice of Provence, though its outstanding feature seemed to be waterwheels!!



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Today was gloriously sunny and hot. Our first port of call was the ancient Pont du Gard, Roman aqueduct:



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Today we visited the city of Arles where we had coffee at the cafe made famous by Van Gogh in his painting, Le Cafe la nuit.



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We arrived in Avignon yesterday after a long day of travelling on the Eurostar and TGV. We arrived to blue sky and sunshine, today has been more overcast but still deliciously warm.

Last night we explored Avignon, I was particularly impressed by the Palace de Papes and its associated cathedral...



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It's a long time since I posted anything here and I'm not even going to try to fill in the gaps!!

It is now just over a year since Chris was diagnosed and he has just finished his intensive blocks of chemo and moved onto maintenance treatment which will last for the next two years. They have promised to remove his central line next time he goes to theatre (a week on Thursday)and he is very excited, counted down the days!!

Meanwhile tonight I am in London with Mum (using a very dodgy internet connection), tomorrow we will be travelling to Avignon where we will be spending the next few days...

Hoping to update a bit while we are there!

Well my birthday is now officially over here for another year, many thanks to all who sent greetings today, whether by card, phonecall, email, facebook, lj or face to face... all were much appreciated and helped make it a good day for me!!

A quick update on the last few days; as I posted on Monday Chris was admitted to hospital on Sunday. He responded well to the antibiotics and the eye infection has cleared up nicely, with no more sign of fever after Sunday evening...

By Tuesday he was really well, but they wanted him to carry on with iv antibiotics a little longer, so after his morning dose we were allowed home, but he had to return to the hospital at 4pm for the night and three more doses of antibiotics as well as the chemo he was due that day. Chris was very frustrated by this as he had hoped they would finish the course after two more doses when he would have been fever free for 48 hours, that way he would have been home for the night and able to have a normal day at school on Wednesday... but it was not to be, so we made the most of our time out from the hospital by going for a meal at the Merebrook, we also took a quick trip to the co-op to pick up a few bits and pieces.

On Wednesday morning we were given the all clear to go home (with oral antibiotics and eye drops) so Chris was dressed and ready to head to school by about 10am, however actually being discharged took about 4 hours while we waited on the duty doctor and chris's prescriptions, so he only made it to school for the last few periods of the day.

Today was an ordinary school day, which was so nice after the last few hospitals days... on Monday I spent six hours at the hospital and six hours travelling... Tuesday was similar, all very tiring. It made today's normality very precious.

Chris had a cold all of last week, over the weekend his eye became irritated and sore. Suspecting an infection we took him into the hospital yesterday to get it checked out.

Because he is neutropenic at the moment they will treat any infection very aggressively, so he has been kept in and is on 6 hourly intravenous antibiotics for at least 48 hours... he's not thrilled really, nor me... just hoping that the infection will respond really quickly and he'll be back home soon.