Stage 1: surprisingly straightforward!

Home again, feeling AOK from yesterday's procedure (still got tummy pain though from the earlier op).

We'll not know if it was successful for a day or two (when they've analysed the Technetium "dummy run"), but the surgeon seemed very positive, so fingers crossed!

One thing though - I was a little awry on the objectives of stage 1 - not to put in tubing, but just to block off unwanted pathways, so that the pellets only go where they're wanted.

Come next Thursday, they will run a catheter upstream along my femoral artery, turn right into the liver's tributary (now facing downstream), and navigate to the ends of the artery, hunting out the appropriate capillaries into which the pellets are injected.

But for the time being, we're focused on getting me fitter, particularly since chemo starts on Tuesday!