beanpole's blog

Got back from a fantastic holiday, great hotel, weather. Clive went parascending , jetbiking and did 6 scuba dives. Sieze the moment and all that. Since we got back his eating had been getting bad again , no meat / bread. Had his first lot of taxotere chemo a couple of weeks ago. Doesn't seem half as bad as the 5fu one so far. Was much tireder with the other one and no sign of hair dropping out yet. A few days ago he…

Have booked a holiday, going away next Friday. The Oncologist said if we want to go away, to go now as my husband is well at the moment and he can start taxotere treatment as soon as we get back. there is less chance of this working than the original chemo, but we have to try. It is seriously so scary, we thought we would have the summer to act normal and he would not have to have any more treatment till much later. The…

Went to see onclolgist today and after being really optimistic after 3 rounds of chemo which were significantly shrinking the tumour and lymph glands, we found out it has been growing again while having the last 3 rounds of chemo . Talk about an absolute shocker! We have been told he can try Taxotere to see if that works. Before he starts that we are definitely having a holiday, probably next week. We have 2 boys 11 and…