Thus ends another week which has been OK for Elaine. Lots of little issues but that is to be expected and she is coping well being the strong person that she has proved to be.

Chemo this week was fairly usual in that we got there just a little before our 1.30pm appointment and were collected at about 2pm for the process to start. This is not bad and not unexpected as this day ward is very busy and sometimes patients take longer than was anticipated. We proved that when the nurses had a lot of trouble finding an appropriate vein in which to insert a canula and it was about 3pm before the actual infusion started. We finished at about 4.30pm and trotted over, or more accurately drove over to Simon Troon's rooms for our regular follow up visit. After some discussion based on the issue that the nurses have with Elaine's recalcitrant veins we decided to get a port installed. This basically is a permanent hole in Elaine's skin through which they can insert the tubes for her infusions. Sounds bad but isn't and will, we trust, make life a lot easier on chemo days. That happens on Monday when we were booked in to arrive at Hollywood at the unearthly hour of 6.30am. However I have just been advised of a reprieve changing the time to 8.30am.