February 9, 2009The words are delivered by our very nice paediatric consultant as lightly as she can muster: ‘William needs a kidney biopsy’ and I know that at this point, statistically, the prognosis for William looks suddenly a great deal worse. William has made very little progress. In fact the only difference between now and when he [...]
Read the full article → January 9, 2009My Second Son William is very poorly in hospital with kidney problems and nephrotic syndrome, neither of which are so far responding to treatment. I’m worried, Matthew is shattered (he’s doing nights in the hospital, where sleep is never allowed with all the coming and going), Harry is badly missing his best buddy and we [...]
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