Tuesday 30 April 2013

'Ding'...Round 3

Apr 16 - 30, 2013

So, to recap....Challenge in conjunction with the Richmond Football Club, offered Mitchell the opportunity to run out onto the MCG with the team at the against Collingwood.

Mitch and Harry K
Melbourne-town turned on a pearler of an Autumn day.  When we arrived we were greeted by the very excellent Tigers PR crew.  We met up with Thomas, the other little boy who was involved too and were taken down to the warm-up room with Aussie international soccer star, Harry Kewell in tow; he was doing the 'coin toss' for the day.  We saw the boys doing their final warm-up and met ex-captain Wayne Campbell.  Just before game time Mitch met and held the hand of 'gun' midfielder Brett Deledio.  They were taken up the race and on to the ground in front of the 85,000 strong crowd.  Through the banner with Captain Chris Newman and into the centre square and then back to the sidelines with Tiger Stripes.

Mitch, Stripes and Tom


The Mighty G










The 5 days in hospital the following week were fairly standard and ANZAC Day on the Thursday meant I could spend the day in and give Lis a rest.

This week we also got an update on the next phase of treatment and it wasn't quite as expected.  We thought that 'Maintenance' would follow 'Interim Maintenance' but not so.  The next phase for Mitch is called 'Delayed Intensification'.  This phase is nearly as intense as Induction.  So, back to a bit of a hard slog.

All done and home on the Friday night as scheduled (yay!) followed by a normal weekend full of netball, gardening and a little relaxing.

Monday was looking good for school but ongoing nausea meant he lasted only a couple of hours and only 40 minutes on Tuesday.  Let's hope it gets better for the rest of the week...

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