Leo is taking to school and all the activities which go with it very well indeed...so much so that when it came to the school disco last Thursday, he couldn't go without getting dressed up 'all fancy' - his words! So what he meant by that is a bow tie.... of course!
On the health-front, the annual cough is back which makes Leo sound like he smokes 40 a day! Asked his GP for a referral to the homeopathic hospital here in Bristol as it worked last time before we moved to Spain where the dry weather cleared his chest up within weeks.
Another eye hospital appointment this week plus chest x-ray next week - in addition, a UK charity called KICT is helping us with nutritional support for Leo so we're having Leo's blood and urine tested this week too to get a measure of his entire immune system. Once we know all of this, plus get an entire picture of intolerences and any other allergies we don't know about, we'll be able to ensure we get Leo to a really healthy place and hopefully keep him there.
The thinking is that children with cancer and also ythose with allergies have something breaking down with their immune system - and the very fact that Leo's egg allergy got worse post-chemo, whereas 99% of cases disappear, is an indicator that there's something amiss with Leo's immune system.
Once we know where the weaknesses are, we can then tackle them head-on with fab green juices and supplements to get him well and thriving. He still has a really pale complexion which when next to other children, he does look positively ill! So we are going to work hard to get him right. If the cancer does come back, at least we know we've done everything we can to make his body as inhospitable to cancer as possible.
