This is the beginning of my blog but not the beginning of my mum Val's journey. That started in October 2010 when after a bad cough and a trip to the doctors she was told they had found a shadow on her lung. A week or so and a couple of scans later we were told it was lung cancer.
Between October 2010 and January 2011 she endured what I can only describe as very intense radiotherapy and chemotherapy. She had infections, blood transfusions, sickness, lost her hair, the whole shabang but she got through it (just) and in January she was told the tumour had stopped growing. Great!!
Not so great in July when they found another one. They gave her Tarceva and things were looking up again; she felt great, was putting on weight again, her hair grew a lovely silver colour and she said she felt better than she had before the cancer. Unfortunately, the Tarceva did NOTHING. The tumour kept growing and in November she was told that was it - there was nothing else they could do for her, she was going to die.
So, here we are. A New Year and a new blog. Mum has had the best Christmas ever and she is feeling OK. The purpose of this blog is to let you know how she feels on a day-to-day basis and hopefully I will still be telling you at New Year 2013.
I hope you find it interesting and please feel free to leave your comments.
