Sean’s Journey…

or, my life after I got cancer

 

    Sean is six.   He has had many stars for bravery.

This blog lets the universe know of Sean.   It invites you to pray for him.   And it gives information and inspiration to the people who care and to all others who visit.

Nov. 14, 2006
Tuesday, November 14

Sitting here with Sean watching ‘Soup’ (for the 100th time), with the wind howling around the hospital.  The weather is pretty wild -  wet and windy, and great to view from inside.  Some would say a typical Windy Wellington day!  ‘Soup’ is a Kiwi production of animated clay creatures in a swamp and different stories of what they get up to.  Sean just loves it, and likes it to be played while he gets his own clay out to make his own swamp creatures.  Our breakfast bar at home is currently covered in swamp creatures in a swamp setting that Sean and his brother Cameron made.  We are not allowed to remove it!!

 

Sean went to theatre yesterday for another dose of chemo, and is doing very well.  He is being cheeky with the doctors and nurses – a good sign.

 

There always seems to be something going on here at the Children’s hospital – the nurses keep us entertained, as well as people visiting – like Norm Hewitt.  He was the one who gave Sean and the other kids a teddy bear.  Last week we had police divers in all their gear, and this week it there will be police dogs visiting.  This (and the divers) has been organized by a policeman called Dean.  Dean has a brain tumour and is in for regular treatment and comes and visits the kids on the ward as well!

 

There is also a lady who comes every week with an animal – last time it was a very cute black and white rabbit.  Not to mention one of the nurses – Robyn – who has the most amazing photos of her with animals sitting on her like baby tigers and chimps.  She used to work with animals – good training for nursing?!!  There are also a few boxes with miniature scenes placed around the ward made by her.  One is a lolly shop – and the detail, right down to the little trays of chocolates in the glass counter is amazing.

 

At the moment we are aiming to have a complete set of tests done on Sean before Christmas to see whether he is in remission or not by then.  He will still have four to 5 months of what they call maintenance chemo after that.  But all looking good we will be home for Christmas with some very good news.

 

Thanks to everyone for their continuing support, and many thanks to Leanne and her family for the blog and their lovely baking and meals – it really is a huge help.

 

Go well everyone,

 

Catherine and Family


Comments

Please pray for our little boy!

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Our Six year old son Sean has cancer. Has an "Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma". And now the disease has spread to his central nervous system.

Sean is a fighter and so is his nine year old brother Cameron. The four of us, Mum, Dad and the two brothers have agreed we're going to fight this thing as a family. We are expecting Sean to make a full recovery. But we have also agreed that we can't win this fight alone. We need the help of Sean's medical team, and we need hundreds and hundreds of people to pray!

So please help us by praying for Sean.

Some days the fighting takes a heavy toll on our family. On those days Sean is too tired to fight, Catherine is drained from the weeks in Hospital, Cameron and Mark feel helpless and don't know what to do to help Sean. But we know that with the help of your prayers we can win this!

Thank you for your prayers

Mark and Catherine Ternent.

A little boy's diary

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