Woke up late this morning!! Couldn't believe it! Important day, didn't want to get stuck in traffic so we were planning on leaving before 7 to make sure we were there on time. 7.45 we left the house because we had overslept!! However even with that we arrived at GOSH an hour early!
The drive up was great, no traffic until we hit London, and the way we had chosen to go, we saw all the big sights! Big Ben, London Eye, Houses of Parliment. It was great!! Imogen and Riley were not interested at all, but turns out I am a bit of a tourist at heart!!
Anyway, got to our appointment and saw the Dr. She agreed it is definitely polyarticular arthritis and that medication is the way forward. 8 of Imogen's joints are badly affected, so they have decided on a 3 day course of IV steroids (Prednisolone). However this is being done at our local hospital so that's a bonus! They are beginning it at 11am tomorrow! She goes in, sees the Dr who will put the canula in her hand then start her first "pulse". She then has her full dose which should take around 30 mins and then we can leave. We then go back up Thursday and Friday to have the other two doses. No hospital stay!!! After she has had her 3 doses, she then goes onto liquid steroids for another 4 days. If all works successfully, we will then be starting methotrexate :)
All in all a good day!!
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