Today I arrived to collect George from school only I'd completely forgotten he's now started at an after school club 🤦🏼♀️ Something that's quite normal for kids to do only for George this is his first so it's pretty big news. He still crashes spectacularly getting so tired even a year on from his cancer treatment finishing so we've been avoiding mid-week extra curricular activities for obvious reasons. Much like many other kids he doesn't know how to read the signs and isn't able to find his off switch so throwing chemo and proton radiation in and we've got ourselves an even harder to read mix!
Needless to say he's been pestering us to do something after school for ages and even got upset a few times when his friends have headed off to a mid-week football club so guess what we put him in this term... that'll be chess club! Not quite what he was expecting or hoping for but we knew it would be best to not start on anything physical. Needless to say, despite never playing chess before, he loved it!
Being that we used to spend hours in isolation in hospital we could have done with knowing how to play chess back then! That's precisely where we were with George on this day in 2017 as he was in isolation for his first post chemo infection as well as having his first ever blood transfusion. Something that originally sounded pretty scary that fast became part of our cancer everyday routine with 16 blood and platelet transfusions over the course of the year (which is nothing compared to some children with cancer so thanks to all of you that are able to donate blood as many wouldn't still be alive without your help!!!)
Talking about spending time with the kids, this half term the Mayor of Reigate & Banstead, together with the Harlequin Theatre & Cinema, is putting on a film gala fundraiser where one of the shows is the new Lego movie!! There are in fact 4 films (I just couldn't fit them all in today's picture) on the weekend of Friday the 15th to the 17th of Feb. I know we're booking in to see the Lego movie and I'm going to try and convince some of my friends to come to along to the sing-along Greatest Showman! See anything you might fancy?! (More details on this link, socsi.in/F99y1) As it's a fundraiser there's a few extras included, for example before the lego movie they'll also be 'fun in the foyer' and you get a small snack and a drink all as part of your ticket price. Get in quick and book with the Harlequin to secure your tickets helping to beat childhood cancer in the process!!
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