Yes and well it isn’t really. it’s a big, like for me and my husband, but it’s when, its family as well. Like if Courtney went away with the family, the injections had to come, you know? And I had to show the family what to do and how to do it. You know. And then I think the year that she left primary school they have [name of place], it’s an activity, a couple of days of activity and that. And I remember like saying, Oh are you going on, are you going on this activity And like, We’ll pay for you And she said, No I said, Well why She said, Because I’m on growth hormone injections And that stopped her from going because she didn’t want; the only place that she’d ever have her injections was in her bottom. She wouldn’t have it in her tummy or, no it was always in her, in her bottom.

And did she say why that was? It was just

Because obviously with the teacher you know, doing the needle injections.

And did you ever consider withdrawing at all?

No. No.

All throughout all that time?

Yeah. Definitely we kept her on them.

I think it’s a two or three, three years like you can go on it for three years and if you want to carry on you can do and that. But we done it for five years, and Courtney like said no.

So you did your three years?

Yeah.

And then you were offered to go on it again?

Yeah.

At what point, because you did the three years, then you were offered again to carry on with the trial and the treatment. But then you decided, so did, was that a joint decision with everybody or?

It was Courtney’s decision.

Courtney’s.

Yeah. It was Courtney’s. Yeah. And then we just told the doctor when we had the appointment last October.

Mm. And how did they respond?

Absolutely fine. She said, You’ve done it for three years so yeah, I will write to the hospital

Yeah, I just, we just done it for her really because like she’s you know, I didn’t want her to, like when she was at school being the littlest, I mean when she did start school she was tiny. At school she was the tiniest one at school. And like people just kept picking her up like a little doll. You know, and she didn’t like that, you know she didn’t like it at all.

Yes, yeah. And we sat down and we was looking on the internet and we was, we was just sort of like doing a bit of research really on it before we decided. And then, it, what it was like when they reached 16 or 17, when they want to drive and they’re only like 4 foot and they wouldn’t be able to reach the pedals do you see? You know? And your daughter or your son is going to turn round and say, Mum why didn’t you put me on the growth hormone You know. So we done it for Courtney’s benefit really. And we done it you know, and for her like obviously being small, because

And then we was in overnight for these tests and that. And she had to have blood tests. An x-ray of her bone age and a scan of her whole body. We stayed in overnight and we came back the next day. And then she just started on them and she was having them every, every day. I tend to do it like after dinner, after tea at night so we knew and she was on them for five years.

But we had to keep going up to the hospital every six months Courtney had to be weighed and height. And then we and then she had to have blood tests as well. And then she, she’s been on them and like she came off them last year, in 2009, because she was twelve and she started High School and she didn’t want them anymore. And we just let the doctor know at the hospital.

And they, the lady came round to the house we were living in. And there was two of them, that one was the nurse who showed us how the injections worked and also the other lady was she’s been with us ever since like we started them. I think she was the nurse as well from the hospital. And then when it was time, when they were showing us how to do the injections Courtney didn’t like it and she didn’t want it done. So I had to like pretend and demonstrate on my stomach but it didn’t hurt, because it didn’t hurt. And then obviously she tried it and she was absolutely okay with it.