Marathon not a sprint...

Ellen has continued to have bad mucositis and is still being sick. She is being fed intravenously (as her gut isn't working) and she is on regular morphine to relieve pain. She has had a few brighter spells, however, and made it out of bed and into the playroom a couple of times. She even managed a brief trip outside on Thursday to see Daddy hit with a water-bomb! We can expect more of the same for the next few weeks.

This time last year Ellen was coming to the end of her neuroblastoma treatment and a number of people (including her Dad, two of her uncles, a second cousin and a number of other close friends of the family) were in final training for the London Marathon. As a group of 12, the "Running for Ellen" team raised a total of over £75,000 for Sparks to fund research into curing neuroblastoma. This year one of the team is doing it again! Please support David Johnson (DJ) in this great cause by clicking here.