Psychological set back - Rose is fed up. Hardly surprising - she's got a bit of chest pain, her leg aches, she's short on one side now by 1cm and it's making her limp worse, small 8 year old girls are not the most sensitive or imaginative and cannot begin to go where she has been and she's thoroughly fed up with the whole world.
She rings me from school - via the school nurse - to tell me that her 'lungs are swollen'. Bless her little heart. It is about the most heartbreaking thing she's ever said to me and I break land speed records getting to her and putting her safely back on the sofa with the dog, popcorn and Disney channel. School can wait.
