Cor, I don't believe it, no posts for 13 days. If I didn't know better I would say that the poster person had gone to sleep, certainly he has become very slack. I shall admonish him severely for this lapse in doing his job.

Anyway back to the nitty gritty. We had the Day 8 part of stage 1 of Elaine's treatment on Wednesday  the 2nd followed by a visit with our pain specialist. The treatment went well with madame handling it okay as it is really just sitting in super comfortable chairs while they drip stuff into your veins. Actually they start off putting the canula in, which in this case did not go smoothly, but it did get sorted and I imagine that the whole thing is not really comfortable. I had planned to take off for a bit, but by the time it was all go they said that it would all be over very soon so I stayed put. Then Dr Chan, the pain guy (actually the pain relief guy), and he didn't change much, just confirming what I had been doing and increasing the size of Elaine's patches to the maximum available.

We had been scheduled to see the oncologist on the same day, but that was a bit difficult time wise so we saw him on the Friday. He was rather friendly this visit, more so than usual which was good. After looking and talking he did some rough measurements and decided that progress was being made in the form of some (very small amount) of shrinkage to the visible tumours.

This last week was what is referred to as a lay week in the sailing community, in others words nothing happened as far as the chemo is concerned. I took advantage of this and had a check up when I went to get some scripts for Elaine's meds. the week was hilighted by 2 visits from a Queensland couple that we met and befreinded 2 years ago and who are travelling through WA at this time.

All in all Elaine had a good week. She appears to be in less pain although her arms, mainly the left one, are still giving her heaps. She is still sleeping most of the day, but this is an expected side effect of the chemo. So far the side effects are minimal so we hope that it stays that way. Elaine is also back, or almost back, to her usual chirpy self which is proved by her comments on my cooking and housekeeping!