I am delighted to say the excellent 2nd half of cycle 2's "inner wheel" has continued through cycle 3's treatment day and into this weekend - it's those steroids again! Nonetheless and however long it continues, it's great to feel as well as I did back in May!!
As well as this contented well being(#) we've had two good reviews with my Oncologist (chemo) and Interventional Radiologist (SIRT).
Overall, my Oncologist continues to be amazed at how I've survived these last several months (thanks in part to you of course!). I likened myself to Mr Wobbly Man from Noddy(*)!! So much so that he's planning to introduce, at long last, Avastin (technically, the MAB Bevacizumab) to the mix next time... Side effects = ? Ho hum!
The Radiologist review was more about the last few weeks and the immediate future than treatment and results per se. They were not, of course(!), surprised to hear of my tribulations since the injection; although concerned they'd not forewarned us sufficiently. It was good that, as an "articulate and intelligent patient" (!!!!), I could help them understand this, and in particular how their/my definition of "fatigue" needs explaining. (Going forward, they did warn us of a common 2nd "mini fatigue dip" that may hit sometime soon... Ho hum!)
As for the outcome of Yttrium's decay from aw90 to aw89... my body has already completely benefited from that "radioactive scalpel", but we will not know what that outcome is until a consultation in the week following Christmas, following MRI and CT scans in mid December. Ho hum!
But enough of this ho humming, not only have I rung bells this week, I've walked further and more strongly than in ages, done more work than since September, and enjoyed your company and conversation more than ever. Long may it continue!
(#) as close to "happy" as it gets!
(*) For my overseas readers: the series of "Noddy" books were written in the 1950's by Enid Blyton (see wiki). Popular with children of my generation (who in the UK remembers "Why have elephants got Big Ears? Because Noddy won't pay the ransom!"), and in spite of an attempted revival via animated TV series in the 2000's, his popularly in the UK has waned. Not so in France and India! It happens that one of the character's in the books is a Mr Wobbly man, a roly-poly toy who's bottom half is a weighted hemisphere so that he always springs back upright whenever you try to knock him over!
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