Friday 6th August, 2010

Congratulations to Luke!!!! He got his drivers licence today and now has the freedom to roam as he pleases. Although being a Mum, that does scare me just a little!!!!
It's so great to see him achieve something he's wanted for a while. He's been taking lessons with a driving instructor for the past 4 weeks (about 2 lessons a week). In the ACT the driving instructor marks off competencies and do two mini driving reviews followed by a final drive.

I've attached a photo of Luke's car for those who haven't seen it. Last November Murray and I saw this Nissan 300ZX down at the local shops - we had seen it about a month earlier in the same place and had assumed it had sold. We knew Luke wanted some sort of sporty car and when we found out it was in his price range we took a look. He also wanted to learn to drive a manual car and we only have an automatic.

It turned out the guy selling it was about to move houses and did not have space for his 3 cars, plus his wife was trying to get him to sell his mid life crisis car!!!
It's 20 years old however it looks really good and only had 150,000km on it. It drives really well and is a 2 seater, 3 litre, non turbo car. So although it looks and sounds really sporty, I take comfort in the fact that it isn't a turbo car and he can only have 1 other person in the car. The car cost $5000 and it really looks as if it should cost a lot more. Someone Murray knew through work has had 6 x 300ZX's over the years and he said we should have paid at least $8000 for it.

It's so nice to see Luke happy and I know he is going to look after his pride and joy and enjoy driving it. Luke is starting to feel the effects of the chemo. He's getting tired throughout the day quickly and having trouble concentrating for long periods of time on any schoolwork. I dare say his blood levels will start dropping soon and he'll be neutropenic, so he'd better make the most of his time out in the car while he can!! We've had every day this week at hospital. The one day we thought we would have off, we had a call that his fibrinogen level was low so we had to go in and get some cryoprecipitate (a blood product that helps with clotting).