We did the usual walk from the tube station to Bart’s with a heavy tread, rather sadly our favourite garden was all cordoned off , all the open spaces near St Paul’s have been cordoned off because of the protestors. A bit of me did think , whatever your political persuasion, if they had turned that lovely garden which has given us so much pleasure and comfort was turned into a campsite, I would have gone round and ripped up all the tents myself.
We got in to Barts and amazingly , only waited 20 mins, to be greeted with the words, the new scan shows definite progression. ….
Scan called up on the screen, which we all peered round, it looked very scary, loads extra in the lung etc. Then Ray started coughing violently,which has been going on the last week. At which point we got lots of questions from the doctor, to cut a long story short, it appears that he now has pneumonia!
This totally interferes with the PET scan as any bacterial activity will also show up as a hot spot- only in meso world could pneumonia sound positive!
So totally inconclusive results, two week course of anti-biotics and new scan in January.
At least we can now plan for Xmas - which I would have rated as a definite positive in January, so once again loads to be thankful for .
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