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…
After a brief but brave fight with secondary liver failure, Dal's brother Mark passed away at 5am on 15/05/2021 I am so grateful that his fight enabled all of the my children to attend their Grandad's funeral on the 13th, Mark battled hard and made that possible.
Only two dedicated people had been allowed in to see him at the hospice, my mother in law and my second youngest daughter, sadly on the morning of his…
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…
We have had to wait a while to hear from the Oncologist and to get information on the scan which Dal had last week and today we were advised:
Everything is stable, the gullet tumour has remained the same, the liver has a very small lesion, the lymph nodes are also stable and nothing really was mentioned about the lungs. The bloods, taken today, have nothing negative to report and it all looks positive in so far as, things…
Over the past month and with regards to Dal's treatment, things have continued positively.
The scar on his chest has healed well, the port is in use for all chemo sessions and now this is the way that his bloods are taken in preparation for the trastuzumab. No more covering his arm to protect a picc line during a shower, and because of that his arm is looking a lot better. His skin had started to grey and dry out…
