friday

friday's appointment was thorough, with a really nice consultant paediatrician, who started the story with us from scratch again. He felt Ethan's lymph nodes, a few more of which seem to be 'up' now, and so added a chest/abdominal xray to the day. He also did the blood tests the others had suggested, and felt that excising a node for looking at under the microscope would be a good idea. The chest xray came back clear no deep nodes were swollen so some good news i think. also initial bloods were fine, kidneys and liver normal and blood count ok, but a bit anaemic still. he is looking quite a lot better, redness and general swelling wise, but the hard edges of the node remain the same. can't decide what i think they will do on tuesday, so we'll have to wait and see.
on a different note on wednesday eve our car had a fatal break down, which is not what we really needed at the moment but amazingly we have managed to get it taken away by a car breaker and bought a new one already!