Wednesday 24th August

Starting off this post with a few photos of my crazy little bro and JW ( soon to be JN!!) 

 See BBS, how your change robe is being stretched!!!

 A typical scene at home .... every day he had to have his 'Papa' nap!

 RIB trip to the Ecrehous with Captain Dan.

 He cannot lay claim to catching these, that was Jack, but he did gut and fillet!!

 Delicious shellfish supper...

My eldest brother and sister-in-law arrived last night, so no doubt they'll be a few more embarrassing photos to follow.
(Huge thanks to SW for collecting them from the airport, and to AH for making us a rather special fish supper- it meant I could get a third sea swim in !)


So, now to make sense of the yesterdays hospital appointment.

On the whole it's good news, ( if you take into account the fact I have a cancerous tumour growing as "good news"). The PET scan showed that the rest of me seemed to be clear, and the only tumour was the one that they had had only partially removed in 2014's operation.

The general consensus was to press ahead with radiotherapy, every weekday for five weeks at the Marsden.

I have not particularly looked at radiotherapy in great detail, thought I'd cross that bridge as and when, so I do have lots of questions that need asking, KG is looking to get me back to the Marsden next Tuesday ( their clinic day), in order to have the pre assessment chat.

We have a wedding in Cornwall on the 3rd September, and then a week in France on the 16th... so my plan would be not to start anything until the 26th. KG doesn't think a few weeks will make a lot of difference anyway.

Unsurprisingly my CA125 has risen again to 81, but the rest of the liver/kidney functions seem fine.

As I type these words it all seems a little surreal, the last few days I've enjoyed aqua aerobics, sea swims, racquetball (thanks AB) and badminton (all in one day) and yesterday was fortunate enough to sea swim three times, fit in a yoga class, and have a cracking netball training session in the evening. So talking about treatments and hospitals etc feels very bizarre given my current 'healthy' state. Mind you I'm not complaining, it certainly does a lot for my mental(!) health to be busy and active, and I'm sure being as fit as I can will help me in the long run.

Thanks again to all the positive support our family receive on a daily basis, very humbling .