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Regan and Rachel Cunliffe

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  • Day 15 / Lockdown Thankful for skies like this to watch. Too much in my head. Too tired to unload it all tonight. Thanks for following along with me.
  • Day 14 / Lockdown Thankful for more cuddles with my kids than normal. I think a lot about numbers, statistics, definitions, models, assumptions. We are all trying to make sense of what's happening and what is to come. At the start of the year before Theo's diagnosis, one day I felt confronted by the question, "Can I, and we as a family, be satisfied with less?" Not in a trendy minimalism type of way, but a question that felt really uncomfortable to think about. Could we choose not to go to Hawaii this year and be happy and thankful still? Could I lose much more of what I love to do and have and still be satisfied? Could we teach our kids not to be entitled, but grateful? I thought for a moment, could I still if I lost my income, my house, my lifestyle? I thought I should not not think any more about it, it was too weird. And here we are now. People I never had heard talking about money and possibly losing it all. Somehow i feel ok now. I think back to that question, and feel more at ease and losing things and still being OK. We laugh every day lately, more than we did. Silly things, words, phrases, memories, kids. It helps. I feel like I have lost so much in the last two years, especially the certainty and sense of control over what happens. But I still get to choose how I respond. I stand on the deck, arm around my husband, taking a photo of the sun setting and our sheep eating grass below us. The air is crisp, the light magical. Breathe in, breath out. Another day is done.
  • Day 13 / Lockdown Thankful for my words in the Daily Mail today. New link in profile. Theo's neutrophils were down again, the lowest they've been. This means treatment was delayed again. He's now officially neutropenic, which means he's really got no immune system to fight anything. For one hour, we waited. It was agonizing. The haemotologist looked over today's blood test sample carefully to decide whether or not he was concerned Theo might have had a relapse. Thankful he had no concerns. So no bone marrow biopsy to look into it further tomorrow. That one hour was so long. People often say take it daughter day. Sometimes it's minute by minute. I had flashbacks to finding out Theo's diagnosis again back in January - because he's seemed so well lately, so happy. But secretly his blood is not. Another day done. Another day less before his treatment can restart. Breathe in, breathe out. #leukaemia #cancer #newzealand #covid19 #covid-19 #neutropenia #sunset #sky #farmlife
  • Day 12 / Lockdown Thankful for beautiful sunsets and board games. Got a call from a Daily Mail reporter from the Daily Mail this afternoon about something I wrote recently. Talked to a psychologist from the hospital today for an hour which was good. We had been trying to get an appointment with them since January as part of our family's care team with our son's leukemia diagnosis. With coronavirus, suddenly we didn't need to do in-person any more, and phone/Zoom is now acceptable. Great considering we are an hour from the hospital and our appointments there change so often. Layer upon layer of trauma without a lot of time to process but I think we have come a long way. Now, everyone else's worlds have been turned upside down and I feel like we are one step ahead in dealing with this huge shift. This coronavirus stuff can really do your head in though. Slept better last night than I had in a while. April is going to be a hard month for the world. I breathe in and breathe out. The sunset is still beautiful. We still laugh and smile. #lockdown #newzealand #covid19 #COVID-19

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