The improvement is dramatic, Elaine is virtually pain free. She is still a bit vague, disorientated and memory is lousy, no doubt due to the long list of medication that she is taking 3 times a day. This is a small price to pay for the benefits that we are getting. The other side to this is that we are just starting the second round of radiotherapy and this will no doubt have its own effect. Secondly this disease has its own timetable so we are by no means out of the woods yet, but we are making good progress.

Yesterday we attend the christening of our new great granddaughter at St Maty's Cathedral, and what a magnificent building it is! Grandeur from a time well past and only possible from the Roman  church, remembering of course that it was built on land that was not quite as valuable then as it is now! More important was to see Elaine mixing and joining in, both at the church and at the knees up afterwards, not quite like normal, but getting closer every day. Following a short 'nanna' nap after that we entertained our three littleys (Lyla, Poppy and Jax) and once again it was great to see Nannee joining in.

Then to top it all off she assisted physically with the cooking.