I have just been reminded that I haven't done a blog for 8 days, sorry about that.

Not much has happened in the last week or so. We are just relaxing and waiting for Elaine's bloods to recover a bit, then we can start the second round of chemo. Chemo affects the blood in all sorts of ways some of which, like the red blood cells, can be treated by blood transfusion.  She had a transfusion early January with her chemo. But others, like the neutrophils which are part of the white blood cells, need time to recover and further treatment would make it worse. So we wait and plan for the treatment to restart next week, provided Monday's blood test meets the appropriate criteria.

The only issue during this period has been a very sore tooth, attended to firstly by our breakthrough medication. Secondly a visit to the dentist has seen that there is no real problem and that the issue is caused by Elaine's bite being out of kilter and exasperated by the large amount of sleeping and the lowering of white blood cells. So once again time will be the fixer upperer.

We remain positive, in fact quite thrilled at results to date and Elaine continues to make extensive use of her bed.