On Wednesday I returned to the hospital for blood tests to see if my liver had improved and to check my cancer markers too after last weeks rubbish results!! Surprisingly my vein decided that blood would be allowed to be taken this time, usually it moves as the needle goes in which makes it extremely difficult for the nurses to get blood out of me! So we succeeded first time! I then met up with Prof Chan to catch up and set a plan in place for my treatment regime and find out my blood results. My liver function has improved a tiny bit - I will take that! If the liver function had been worse then I would have had to stop treatment and swap to something else which isn't good as it's all about using options up slowly. So I want that other option available for the future rather than use it now. So this was a big tick in a box to know my liver is coping a bit better. I have been feeling a bit better this past week with the nausea easing and the pain in my liver disappearing too. I have done everything in my power to help my liver recover. I already have a healthy diet but I avoided anything fatty like cheese that might be hard for the liver process and I have pretty much cut out refined sugar too. I needed to be sure that I had done everything possible to help my body. It may well have helped! Then the cancer marker test - this was the same as the previous occasion!! This is brilliant news! This suggests the cancer may have stopped growing already! After one round of treatment!! I didn't expect that to happen yet! So it looks like the treatment might be working. It's a good first indicator and step in the right direction. We still need to wait for another cycle of treatment, more blood tests and to see my marker reduce but also to see what happens when I have a CT Scan in a month's time. Then we will know for sure if the treatment is working. But I'm extremely happy with this first set of results. This summer 'the cancer' decided to join us on holiday, which I wasn't too impressed at! It was not invited!! However it seems that it is regularly joining me in my life although I do plan to get rid as rapidly as possible and hopefully it will not be joining us for Christmas dinner this year. There is no invite being sent - that's for sure!! I hope you have all had a fantastic summer, we certainly have had lots of fun :-)
The September editions of the Barrowby Bamboozler are currently being printed and will be available from the 4th September. Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend! Deborah x
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Les Smith
8/31/2017 06:41:26 pm
Take everything that is given but expect more. Including my good wishs.
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