So! A couple of days ahead of my normal schedule, just to keep you on your toes.

Today was results day and, like students waiting for end of year marks, we were just a little bit nervous. It is all very well being positive but when you do not have any guide posts to check and you are dealing with something like cancer one can't help being just a bit nervous. As it turned out the positive was what worked. All but one of Elaine's tumours have shrunk, some more than others, but a good result none the less. The one that went against the trend only grew marginally and our oncologist has decided to send it back to radiotherapy. The chemo will continue with just one of the drugs and I would think that we will measure again in another 6-8 weeks. It will be interesting to see how effective the one drug is as today's scan would be showing the results of half two drugs and half one drug.

Anyway we are happy with the results and hope that they continue to be positive.

It is blog time again, good morning everybody.

This week has been fairly smooth. Elaine is experiencing a fair bit of pain, perhaps a little increased over the past couple of weeks. Medication is however helping to keep the pain, more or less, under control. She had a CT scan last Wednesday and will get the results when we see our oncologist next Wednesday. This will tell us what the accursed cancer is doing.

Other than that there is nothing new to report.

I have just been prompted to get the blog up to date and yes it is 7 days since the last one.

Not much happened last week. Blood test on Monday and it was obviously satisfactory because we did chemo on Wednesday. Chemo is, for now only one drug so that Elaine's blood is not affected as much as it has been affected. She has had a bit more pain this week than has been the norm lately, but medication is stopping it from becoming too overbearing. This week we have a CT scan on Wednesday followed by an appointment with our pain specialist. So we will be able to sort the pain bit out, maybe we have been too quick to reduce the medication. Then next week we see the oncologist and get the results of the scan, hopefully there will not be any unpleasant surprises and we will see whether the change to the chemo has had any adverse effects.

I have been behaving myself, no additional toys this week. In fact they have been ignored, other than the trumpet of course.

Once again a large break between blogs, somehow this week has whizzed by. I must have been busy, but I can't think what I did.

Anyway it was a fairly normal week for her ladyship. Blood test on Monday and that showed that some of the markers were still low, but not low enough to cause further postponement of her chemo. So on Wednesday we fronted up for chemo, but this time only for one of the drugs. Our oncologist has done this to make sure that she can continue to have treatment and hopefully this will continue to belt the cancer around. Elaine seems to be experiencing an increase in pain at the moment. Hopefully this is because we have reduced the medication, which thought we will discuss with our pain specialist. Despite that she is still handling it all very well.