#1551 Friday 12 May

This morning Kaylia has been to the hospital to have the fit of her brace checked and adjusted.  She has grown since the brace was first made and it needs to be enlarged to fit her new size.  It now has lengthened straps and a few other refinements .... but Dr Steve says that she really needs a whole new brace.  This means further appointments at RPH to check on the progress in her neck ... and to refer her for the new brace.  It was good to be able to report to Dr Steve that she is experiencing less neck pain .... and that she clearly feels benefit from the brace and that she wants to wear it.  When she gets to a point that the brace is no longer needed, she will probably want to keep on wearing it and we will have a new problem!

After the appointment at Fiona Stanley Hospital was complete (9:30am) we headed off to school.  Kaylia was "chomping on the bit" when we arrived a school and she really didn't want to wait for the regulation escort to her classroom!!  She wanted to be there now!!  It's so good for us to know that she gets so much pleasure from her school experience.

At home, Ashley helped me with the steady progress on preparing to move "the bungalow".  (The plan is to move it sideways by about 2-3 meters to get it away from the property boundary.  When the house was built around 1970, the bungalow was erected too close to the boundary and now this is a nuisance.  I can either disassemble it and re-erect it ..... or I can slide the complete building onto new foundations.  The latter is my preference.)  I hope to complete the move this year.

Naomi has just arrived home .... and she has found this giant mug in an op shop .... and brought it home for me. It holds 750ml!  Now that's a cuppa!!!