Wednesday, September 17, 2008

whats happening

so sorry to everyone that I am so rubbish with computers and updating this blog. I have had a few friends of Liam telling me off.
Again sorry.

We had such a time in America!
for starters we have never been so tired. It was a really big journey and we had so many meetings to go to, some very hard to deal with. It was very emotional.

We arrived and said to eachother never again! But on the third day we met the potentials foundation which is the charity for primordials and their families in USA. After just a short time we said we would come every year if it were possible.
Straight away Liam clicked with the others, you would never of guessed they did now know eachother. To see the way they played and for us to not be worrying about Liam being knocked over or the children being rough with him, picking him up and patting him on the head, which are things that happen all the time at home and he is satrting to get qutie mad about.
Liam had such a great time and Martin made some good friends. some he has kept in touch with.

For me and Robbie some of it was hard work. One meeting I'm afraid I had to leave for a while as we were being informed about new information about a anurisms and one of the mums spoke about the child she lost, I just brust into tears.
There were experts there that gave us so much infromation and lots of tips to make Liams life alot easier. We learnt so much and not just form the experts, from the parents as well. they were so great, I could talk to them forever. all at the convention were so welcoming and we were shocked to meet so many that had already heard of Liam but to talk with the parents from potentials, it was so lovely and to talk to people that understood what we were saying and had such simular stories makes such a difference. The support was overwhelming. They made us feel like family.
I will try and get some photos of the trip put up.
thankyou again to everyone that has suported us and made our trip possible.

You can see some of our trip on BBC1 Wednesday 24th at 7.30pm on Inside Out. this is only for people in Nottingham but for others you will be able to get it on the net(iplayer)


Also we will be on Victoria Park(oppersite Victoria Leisure Centre) in Sneinton, Nottingham. There will be a fun day there 10am-4pm. It will have stalls, health information and advise, a bouncy castle, facepainting and other childrens activities. The day is to raise funds for the Windmill Pratice childrens room and for Liam.
It would be great to see lots there