Well I have been silent for a week, my apologies, but I will now bring you up to date.

We have had a good week, nothing out of the normal has happened. The pain in Elaine's shoulder remains a major issue that we are dealing with by some serious medication. But we have been using less of the 'breakthrough' medication which would indicate an improvement. The visible tumours have definitely shrunk which is good news and which we hope continues. At the same time Elaine is almost back to her normal self, so we are sweating a bit on the chemo having continued success.

Last week we had chemo, the so called day one large dose and, once again, Elaine handled it well. It was followed by a visit to Dr Chan, our pain specialist, who did not change any medication. However he is going to put some sort of nerve block in her shoulder to relieve that pain and it will we done before Christmas. We will also be seeing him again in 2 weeks time. Another thing that he indicated is that we can expect more blood transfusions and that we need to be particularly vigilant with possible infections due to the affects on her immune system.

So we are looking forward to a good week.