God bless the NHS

[nickbarnes]

Yesterday, my son was discharged from paediatric oncology for the last time. Nearly eight years after diagnosis, he was told categorically that the cancer is not coming back and that his treatment has had no lasting adverse effects.
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This is a very big deal. It will take a while to sink in.
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Long ago I bought a bottle of champagne for this day. I'll open it when I have the opportunity to share it with the appropriate person.

Comments

[lizzydragon.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant news!

fantastic

[kbj-haines.livejournal.com]

Words can't express how brilliant this is! Well done!

We have a photo of Joe dated July 1999 on our mantelpiece. I think it is time for a new one.

[jikme.livejournal.com]

That's just wonderful. I'm doing my best to send happy thoughts back to 1999 when we needed them most.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

Fantastic news!

[manjushra.livejournal.com]

well done joe, esme, nick, emm. whatever else has happened you have won something so wonderful and important: that joe is still grunting monosyllabically over his breakfast of a morning. what a fantastic end to this leg of your journeys.

[manjushra.livejournal.com]

.... maybe that didn't come out right! he's a lovely, happy, healthy boy and its great that normality has struck ... i probably grunt far more than he does ....

[bovlb.livejournal.com]

Great news.

[nwhyte]

Excellent!

[leif42.livejournal.com]

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| What he danced :)

(Beyond which, words fail.)

Go Joe, go Joe!