More sadness....

Hi again Celeste It's now  fortnight since you really aweful news... . Hopefully you have had may a few hours sleep... but would I reckon you haven't.  Getting the new chemo into your veins will be a relief.  ( Strange irony that the chemo can be worse that the disease itself).

Just  clarification about PET scans. They are  a more advanced, modern form of  radiographic scanning. Different tracer elements used.  Different details can be detected based on metabolic activity within the organs.  It gives the oncologists another way of looking at what is happening inside you... without opening you up!  it also give you a chance to be reviewed by another radiologist.

As there is only 1 machine in Newcastle, so i had to wait over 2 weeks ( eternity) for an appointment... but so glad I 'pushed'  for this option.

There was about 94% chance that she was correct  with the dignosis of metastatic liver disease... I was way so lucky to be what my kids now proudly claim as  their  unusual 'mutant mother'!

Funny with the medico's (like all of us) ... sometimes they have to be urged to pursue a challenge..... whereas others can be so "gung ho".  I guess either extreme can have its problems.

How is your daughter?  My 2 girls, Miss22 and Miss27 are back on their perches, at last..... I' ve reminded ( again) to NEVER to give them bad news 2 weeks before a final exam... except of course if I've died!  Got to laugh.... but the experience added another 12 months to each girls' study... But i think they are better off for the experince. They are far more aware of 'unsugared' real life. My youngest started  as a Registered Nurse last week, at last.  Her working knowledge of Chemo (and complications) is probalbly better than most of her colleages!  She scored top marks in a case study about liver disease!!!!!

Hang in there,

Cyberhugs from  Fiona