Tuesday, Scan day, Blood Test and then Oncologist phone call.
I have found the past few days so tough! A rollercoaster of a ride, but the ride continues! it has it's scary times, it has it's laughs and it has it's emotional breakdowns, and all of this is necessary..... for we are working towards a positive outcome.
Amazingly only 30 minutes after Dal got home from the hospital on Tuesday he received the call…
Things have been such a rollercoaster for us over the past year.
It is hard to believe that just over 13 months ago at the beginning of May 2020, Dal was diagnosed with Stage 4 Oesophageal Cancer with secondaries in his lung, liver and lymph nodes, T3N3M1 GOJ.
13 months ago, we learnt that Dal had a terminal illness, that he was not expected to live for more than a year, (and that was with treatment) and that Life as we…
Things have been going ok for Dal since he came out of hospital, he has had some swelling on his knee which is unexplained, but an ultrasound on his entire leg proved that no blood clots were present, so we continue to monitor this.
We took a camping trip to Somerset, just a long weekend, it is amazing what a short trip away can do to make you feel better about life in general.
Treatment continues - just about to start…
Last week Tuesday Dal received a surprise phone call from the oncologist,
With Dal's blood readings he was told that the 4000 reading is now 12 and the one that was 24 is now less than 1, and once it's less than 1 it can't be measured.. so his bloods are all within the normal range, and it is likely that there will be little change now. The scan itself shows that everything is stable, the tumours in the lung are undetectable…
Dal had a procedure at the end of February which involved a great deal of pressure on his stomach and for about a week afterwards he was obviously very sore and uncomfortable. By mid March he started to feel uncomfortable eating and by Easter he had only managed to eat one full meal a week. He contacted the GP, as Covid19 demanded that only telephone consultations took place, and a change in medication was suggested,…
