...is exactly 6 months since my diagnosis.
It's of course been tough - very tough sometimes; but greatly eased on so many occasions by your support.
Today, at this moment, we feel betwixt and between, with so little knowledge of what's actually happening "inside" other than "it was stable" 4 weeks ago... All we can do is continue to do our best to treat the side-effects (admittedly most of which the side-effects drugs are coping with - it's the numerous more niggly rest that are being overcome by Diana's mastery of first aid, skin care, and diet!).
We just have to do our best to keep me fit and well - and I feel fitter and weller than in weeks past - so I can maintain the most aggressive fight-back I can; hoping and praying that we can beat the odds (*).
I think I've commented before that my state of (good) health, combined with the outcome of the last "stable" scan does mean we're continuing on to cycle 13 and beyond, at the same aggressive (tough) 2 weekly frequency, thereby extending the original regime (of 12 cycles) to be "for as long as it takes". Either we'll see a marked improvement ("way to go, Cetuximab!"), or I will eventually succumb to the effects of the Cytotoxins... We expect(!) the former!!!
(*) While I am not quite so "nervous" as I was - it's over 9 months since I last had "something" (other than cancer!) - this ned to stay well does mean continuing to avoid close-proximity groups of people, including my long-forgotten pleasures of bell ringing and singing, as well as missing regular and and one-off group and village events :-(
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