Well it has been a busy and somewhat trying week or 10 days since my last blog.

The scans were duly had and the following day we fronted up to the pain specialist and got our first hint that all was not rosy. However he dealt with the pain issues and changed Elaine's medication a little. The next day we visited our GP primarily to get a script and got another hint that we had issues to deal with. Then on Thursday our oncologist brought forward Monday's appointment to Friday, not good.

So on Friday we learned that the cancer is progressing with several new lesions appearing and some old ones growing larger. There is however some good in that the huge tumour that started all this gas gone. The good news of course is that our oncologist was on to it and arranged to start a new treatment on Monday. This we did and hopefully it will kick the hell out of this disease.

He also said that he would request urgent radiotherapy to attack the areas that are causing Elaine's current high level of pain and that the radiotherapy people would contact us to make arrangements. So far we have not heard from them so I will follow up tomorrow.

In the meantime Elaine has a lot of pain and we are doing our best to cope with it.

Just a short blog today. As usual we had a visit with the nurses at Hollywood's chemo ward today and they are lovely bunch of girls. It took a while today as they had a bit of drama with another patient but out treatment went well. Elaine has been having quite a lot of pain during the last couple of weeks, but her spirit is still good. We are having scans tomorrow followed by a visit with our pain specialist on Wednesday and our oncologist next Monday. So we will find out from them what is going on and hopefully take steps to counteract the issues.

Another week another chemo treatment or in this case 2 chemo treatments.

Last week after our treatment we went to visit first our pain specialist then our oncologist and it turned out to be a very long day, we got home from our 11am  appointment at 7pm. Anyway to get back to the subject at hand, first Dr Chan the pain guru who changed Elaine's medication increasing the pain reduction stuff. Then we visited Simon Troon our oncologist and he found a lesion that has been eluding us for weeks. Elaine has a pain in her left chest below her boob and dispite the fact that we knew something was happening no one could find anything. But on Wednesday Elaine showed him a lump which he then found on the latest scan and thereby identified another, 1cm, tumour located between her ribs. Damn. So he booked us in for another 3 weekly treatments and because Wednesday's are very busy we have had a go at Monday which was busy when we got there, a 45 minute wait, but was almost empty by the time we left at 3pm.

Overall Elaine's week has been very painful requiring lots of breakthrough medication which had limited success. Hopefully the change of medication will kick in and make this a better week

I know, I am late but the old saying is 'better late than never' and I felt a bit out of sorts last night.

Last week was fairly routine we had chemo on Wednesday and this time it took ages. Our appointment was 2pm and we got in just a little late and basically every thing went smoothly, just a little slow. We got home at 6.45pm a bit tired so dinner was simple followed by early bed. Elaine is doing as well as can be expected, lots of pain dealt with by lots of rest and extra medication as needed    .But she is more like her old self and is doing lots like a bit of cooking, a bit of cleaning etc.

This week we will be visiting with our pain specialist so he might do something about the ongoing pain.