Well.....Well.....This is a bad example of neglect of duty, about a week since the last post. So I am back and will do my best to report on what has been a fairly quiet week. The media fills in this sort of week with lots of rubbish, I will try to be a little more objective.

Elaine is travelling fairly well at the moment, her pain level is down which would indicate that the radiotherapy is working. However there is some clarification to that statement, as expected the pain is variable, but generally a lot less than it has been. Elaine still takes around 25 pills per day which helps reduce the pain level. There are of course side effects but we deal with those as they rear their ugly heads. Our doctors, particularly our GP, and Silver Chain continue to be a really important and effective support team.

Elaine's improvement can be judged by her doing a small amount of gardening, turning the washing machine on much more than is really needed and by close, very close, supervision of my cooking attempts. We have also been lucky to have family dropping in to chat and offer support and in Lyla's case cheer us both up and is probably between them the best support team.