...Oh my this was a fun day today...nerves were going mad all morning, and it wasnt even 9am. Waiting anxiously for 9am so we could ring the hospital to comfirm that they had a bed for Maisie....I think even Maisie's older Sister Hailie was ready in record timing! Surprisingly Hailie went to school, Alan's mum had stayed over the previos night to help with Hailie this morning, so she took Hailie to school and me and Alan were making sure we had everything packed and the us and Maisie were dressed and all ready to leave, adn that all the bags were by the door ready to leave....
Then 9am came.....as Idialed the number given i could feel my heart starting to race, once they had answered, i asked if the bed was still available for Maisie today, "oh yes, can you be here for 12.30pm" so i asked if we were a little late would it matter as we had to get the train then the tube, and explained that it may take a few hours as we don't live in London! He was fine with that....good job too!
We got on the train, at our local train station, price = £28.80! That was paying for Maisie too, by paying for her we qaulified for the "family saver thingy" bonus. So we set off to hunt out Whitechapel in London! It was actually pretty easy to be honest, train direct to London Liverpool Street, change to the tube, and i think we took the hammersmith and city line, to Whitechapel.....
Once we had arrived at Whitechapel tube station, we had to find where the Sick Childrens Trust Charity had left the room keys for us, i for some reason was under the impression that they had been left at the train station, but they wern't, they had been left inside The Royal London Hospital at the security office for us to collect, the baggage we had was amazing, so rather than take everything to the ward and with it only being 12pm, we took all our stuff to a beautiful house run and funded by The Sick Childrens Trust named "Stevenson House". We were greeted with care by one of the staff! By the time we had got the stuff to our room and changed Maisie's nappy etc it was just after 12.40pm, so we rang the ward and asked if it would be ok to take Maisie for some lunch before bringing her up as she would have missed the dinner trolly, which they were fine with. So we went to as lovely little shop called Trio Sandwhich Bar, and had a sandwhich each, then took Maisie to the ward....
Maisie was on Grosvenor B Ward at The Royal London Hospital, bed 8! We went through all the paperwork that needed to be done, and that was that, we then went for a walk around for a bit as they didn't need her to be stuck on the ward! We took her back and she had some Tea, then thought it would be a great idea to run all around the ward...barefoot lol! All the staff were laughing at her, and she was so happy and was really enjoying herself, she didn't settle down and go to sleep until well after 10pm lol.......if only she knew what was to come the following day......
Steph xxxx
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