Lee Dixon

I’m a little late on this post as Easter was a good week ago now, but ehhh….  It was a busy long Easter weekend here at the Dixon’s. We got a visit to the Legoland Discovery Centre in Manchester. It was ok with a few things to do, but I’m afraid that after visiting Legoland in Windsor everything else falls short, but not a bad way to spend a few hours.

Just an update on my son and where we are at the moment…..  After almost 12 weeks now since my son had his stroke, we still don’t have any answers about what caused it. He had his second MRI scan about 4 weeks ago and was given a General anaesthesia as they wanted to do more test which could take over 1 and a half hours, which is a long time for anyone never mind a 7yr old. In the last week we have seen two consultants, the first was about his blood pressure. He said Ryan is doing great and wants to slowly remove him from the medication that he is on for high blood pressure. This will take almost 3 months to do, and during this time he will be monitored by outreach nurses. This news made us happy and we thought we had turned a significant corner in his recovery. Unfortunately the next consultant has knocked us back again…..

TIME FOR THE LAST LOT OF PICTURES TAKEN WHILE WE WERE AWAY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. On one of our walks we went on, well I won’t say we went all the way up a mountain but it felt high, I’m sure the air was getting thin   . We parked at Dodd Woods, next to  The old sawmill  and followed the river running down it. A good way up we stopped at a group of birds watchers who showed us a few locations about half a mile away with their spotting scopes. Great views right across Bassenthwaite Lake. 

After the last few months of worry over our youngest son and his health, and the doctors telling us we shouldn’t take him abroad, we had to cancel our holiday to Cyprus. It was a shame as we have wanted to take our boys to where we got married for many years now, maybe another time.   For our last few breaks we have spent them at Center Parcs so this time we thought we would try somewhere new. We found a place in Keswick called  Keswick Reach Lodge Retreat .  Very new and very nice, not much on site, but only a 20mins drive into Keswick centre.  On arriving in the Lake District we first stopped off at  Castlerigg Stone Circle ,  it is among the earliest British circles, raised in about 3000 BC during the Neolithic period. After that we moved onto  Keswick Climbing Wall  which was just down the road for the boys to spend sometime climbing the walls!!

FIRST GAME THIS SEASON THAT I REMEMBERED TO TAKE MY CAMERA, AND SO GLAD THAT I DID.  It was a fantastic win for Leyland Warriors 36-0, they were on fire and not giving anything away today. They started off with a minutes silence for the London terrorist attack, then got straight into the game and didn’t stop until the final whistle was blown.  This afternoon we went to Bank Hall for Daffodil and Mother’s Day. Nice walk and nice to take Kylo with us 🙂

Last week Ryan received all these “get well soon” cards from his school friends. Such a lovely collection and very interesting pictures they have drawn. They have been so worried for him, some of his friends even visited him in hospital and at home. It’s great to see he has so many friends out there….

So proud of my youngest son, I don’t know how he’s kept going. And as I write this it’s his third going into fourth day in hospital…. Started almost two weeks ago with him feeling sick and very tired. Then on Friday morning he tried to get out of bed and fell as he had lost total control of his left leg. We phoned ambulance and was taken to A&E hospital. After a few hours and few tests, and with the use of this leg coming back they discharge him. Walking back to the car I could see he wasn’t right, he wasn’t steady on his feet, was not focused and seemed confused. The doctors may have done their job, but I know my son. He’s a bright healthy and very steady footed young boy…