The time has come the walrus said !!!! I am not sure that the walrus actually knew what he was on about, but it is time to update Elaine's progress.

This has been a reasonable week with chemo going smoothly with the first treatment using her brand new port. The port sits just under the skin and is accessed by a special needle saving all the fiddling around that goes with finding the correct vein and inserting a new canula each time. so that was a saving in time and discomfort for Elaine. It is hard to tell whether we are winning but a CT scan to be performed tomorrow will bring us up to date when we get the results next week. With this disease winning is a rarity, holding ones own is about as good as it gets. My opinion would be that we are sort of holding our own as Elaine's pain level appears to be constant, varying locations but overall the level stays about the same. Elaine is losing hair at rapid rate and we have had a very useful chat with the cancer council's Wig Library on this score.

Elaine herself is still dealing with it all remarkably well, remains fairly cheerful, entertaining our grandchildren and tonight cooking most of the dinner. In fact she manages to do a few jobs every day.