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Today is my birthday, last year I spent it in hospital and the year before that it was only a couple of days before it that we found out I was pregnant, so to be honest today has been extremely odd to just be able to be me...a "normal birthday" so to say, no wires on my fingers, no drips in my arms, no panic attacks over a surprised positive sign on a stick after thinking you couldn't have children... It's been lovely but odd.
Ironically however on the first anniversary of my surgery...
Since October last year, Dal has missed 3 immuno treatments, one each month, 1 planned and 2 unexpected...
October there were particles in one of the treatments, so it was unable to be given, and there was no back up supply available, November, we had a holiday, which was planned and treatment would have to be missed to facilitate this, and then December, a strange scenario where Dal went and had his bloods done just after Xmas, and then when he went back a few days later for the immuno, he was told...
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