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.