This is just a quick update about Friday's results. The Senior Consultant gave us about an hour of his time (is that a good thing?) and talked through the options. As always - good news and bad. The good news is that my lungs and liver are still clear. This is significant, as it is those areas that are potentially going to cause the most trouble. However, the illness has progressed in the pelvis, growing into the bone and starting the invasion of the bladder wall. So, I am going to have a five day course of radiotherapy in the near future in the hope that it will reduce the symptoms and might even cause tumour shrinkage. They are holding off on the chemo for now, and are more likely to start that when when tumours appear outside of the pelvis.
Mary and I feel okay about this. Obviously not happy at the disease's progress, but I think we were braced for something worse. We are both pleased at the delay in chemo. The girls have been in a dance performance today and yesterday so it has been nicely chaotic on that front, allowing us to get lost and distracted in sequins, tights and deadlines.(Spare me the offensive remarks ...) Joel is just enjoying the feeling of being alive, which is significant ... the music shop phoned to say that the reason my bass rig went on fire and destroyed itself has a lot to do with the fact that someone posted a 5p piece into the electrics. Bless that cuddly wee soul; butter wouldn't melt ...
