Facing the future: Together

  • Biopsy Update

    Sorry to leave everyone hanging and delaying the update of our blog, we have been waiting on updates and results which we received on Monday. 

    The strangest of things happened : As you know if you have been reading the blog, Dal was called in for a pre-assessment early, which included a CT scan of his chest / lungs in preparation for the biopsy surgery on Saturday 30th October. 

    Surgery day comes, and we are up at 04.45am…

  • Biopsy update

    Phone call received today, Dal is to go in tomorrow for the pre- assessment and have the Biopsy on Saturday ,, so all happening this week rather than next, which obviously means we should get the results quicker too. 

    Dal does seem to be bruising easier from small knocks, something to keep an eye on, but overall, he continues to do well. 

    Things are getting busy in the hospital, times and dates for chemo are changing due…

  • Navigational Bronchoscopy

    Sorry for my delay in updating the blog, we had the call on October 6th from the lung specialist and were advised that a Biopsy needs to be taken from Dal's right lung to determine the cause of the markers they found during the scan. 

    So to do this they will perform a navigational bronchoscopy, which is basically a telescope down the throat that is guided by a CAT scan through the veins to the correct area of the right…

  • Further to the scan findings

    It always surprises me how time can go so fast, and yet feel so slow, both at the same time. 

    We received a call from a man at the hospital on Monday 20th advising Dal that his chemo had been rescheduled, cancelled for September 24th, rescheduled for the 1st October, no reason as to why, just that it had... but he was still to go in for his nurse assessment on the 21st.  So the Tuesday comes, and transport takes him to…

  • Scan 16th September

    We didn't expect a phone call from the hospital so quickly after the scan yesterday, 16th September.

    This afternoon Dal was called and informed that although it doesn't look it is too much to worry about, but they have noticed some spots on his lungs. Although they do not think that the spots look like cancer, they need to have the images looked at further by a lung expert, they believe that it may be an infection…