Monday 15th December

I started the day well enough with a well run tennis tournament at Les Ormes ( many thanks to all involved) and even managed to reach the semi-final! Good, close games with long rallies and I had a lovely partner too! Met up with old friends and generally had a fab time.

Play at les Ormes.....

Met up with westerner SW for a quick catch up, and then shopped on way home before heading into town with Jack for blood test and CT news...

Truth is i did receive a call from Dr H on Friday to tell me about the scan but I thought i'd wait before i saw him properly today to make sure I had all the facts straight, but i ended up not seeing him today! He plans to 'talk about me' at the MDT meeting with the Marsden tomorrow morning, and i guess discuss further treatment.

So, to condense our last weeks phone call... the blood clot is still there (keep on with the tablets, at least not those wretched injections), both chemo and cancer can cause blood clots. I don't think there is any change with lymph nodes that were partially removed, so, good not bigger, but not reduced either. At least I think that was gist of it, don't quote me!
Anyway, I had my blood test and red blood cells down to 8 ( from 9.3) think women should be 11.5.. my white cells and neutrophils are both ok (hurrah), BUT, my platelets have dropped to 42 (no that is not the answer to the Universe and everything, read the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy!!)
No way I can have Chemo with those results, so after consultation with nurse i am due another blood test Wednesday morning ( after racquetball obviously ) to see about Chemo in the afternoon. Having said that after she has spoken to Dr H and he in turn spoken to Marsden it could all change in the next 12 hours!!
Once again, I'm just going with the flow... and I have to accept that there is a good chance of a) not having chemo this week, but possibly next b) I could well need blood transfusion c) I may well need a further 6 cycles of Chemo if i can manage to get through these first six.

The jolly good news is that we have Christmas decorations up , and have attended this evening a lovely St Martin school nativity at Chapel, very enjoyable and we both appreciated the hard work of pupils and staff alike.

"Sometimes the road of life takes us to a place we had planned.....sometimes it shows us a surprise around the bend we could never have anticipated "