Well I've been 'prepped' for my sirtex treatment on Wednesday. It was a hell of a lot more traumatic than I was expecting as no one had mentioned needing metal coils inserted into my arteries and veins until 5mins before the procedure, and trust me to be complicated and needs loads of the damn stuff, not at all fun. hopefully all worth it.
Got chemo to go for the next 2 days and then step one of radiation treatment. they're treating one side of my liver at a time. not sure which now as I had an episode this week with my liver expanding leaving me in agony, but it was the opposite side to where the biggest tumour is so that could be up for debate.
only a 30% success rate at my my stage (which is very flaming advanced) but that's better odds than I've got without it so I will take my chances with this. apart from the pain this week and a couple of random small infections i've been absolutely fine even at this pretty advanced stage, much to the surprise of pretty much every doc so far, so you never know, maybe i've got a few more surprises up my sleeve yet.
hoping to go away in june to spain with some friends provided this all goes well, and have just moved to a fab new flat so nice stuff happening lately. hope it stays that way, could do with a good year.
