Not a lot to report again.

Elaine has now completed her 10 shots of radiotherapy and we think that it has been successful in shrinking the shoulder tumour. Mind you it is still very painful but, as the radiation oncologist pointed out , there will be scar tissue and ongoing pain. But that is manageable. Chemo started again this week with more next week followed by a visit to Dr Troon.

In herself Elaine is doing well, still has quite a bit of pain and is very fatigued. The fatigue bit is understandable with chemo, radiology and a huge load of medication. But she has been doing things around the house, cooking and telling me where to improve my housekeeping.

All in all we do seem to be holding our own against fairly stiff opposition.

From one extreme to the other but by way of an excuse we have been a bit busy and I guess I just felt like a bit of a break from communicating.

Anyway as a result of the changed plans we started radiotherapy on Monday April 10 then had a break for Easter and are now back to daily visits to Genesis for treatment. Wednesday April 12 was busy with radiotherapy late morning at Joondalup followed by chemo at Hollywood then a visit with Simon Troon our oncologist. The visit with Simon confirmed the treatment plan and discussed the possibility that the reduced chemo is not as effective and the tumours are, once again, growing. This will be verified by a scan in a couple of weeks time. In the meantime all is proceeding as planned and yesterday was once again a long day of medical stuff.

Elaine is as usual handling all this well but has quite a bit of extra pain, resulting in the reinstatement of some of her medication. This of course does not assist with her memory or her reactions. However she did manage, with a lot of help from Toni, to organise Pesach for 14 of our family the rest being in Bali. We also got away in our motorhome to Woodmans Point and the boat for the weekend which was a nice break in routine.

Don't pass out, I just felt that an update was called for.

Today Elaine got measured up for radiotherapy on her shoulder which is messing up a bit. We will start the radiotherapy on April 13 which will hopefully bring it under control, or as close to that as this disease permits. Yesterday we had chemo after an appointment with Dr Chan, our pain specialist. Nothing special to report there except that we think that the reduced dosage maybe allowing the tumours to grow. We will discuss this with the oncologist when we see him after chemo next week.

In the meantime Elaine is all fired up to have Pesach (passover) at our place as usual despite the obvious difficulties caused by pain and fatigue. Toni will of course be her major assistant and it will happen.

Another week of not much happening, hence I didn't remember to do the blog.

Anyway Elaine is still going reasonably well, at least as well as can be expected. There is still quite a bit of pain, especially from her shoulder which, tumour, is not reducing as the others are reducing. The pain medication is therefore getting quote a workout. In herself Elaine is doing very well and is doing more and more of her normal activities, that is a bit of an exaggeration but she is doing lots more now than some months ago. In fact we visited the club on Friday and attended Allie's 1st birthday party in Kings Park yesterday. She is however still very fatigued and spends a lot of time in bed sleeping.

This week we will be visiting our radiation oncologist and doing chemo, so a busy week to come.