Avast(in) there me Hearties!

Roughly translated from "Pirate" to "proper English", with a little artistic license, this is "Hold on a moment chaps, let's jolly well consolidate our position, what?"

Oh boy!  Now we ARE fighting back!  For some while now, even before "those 10 weeks", I've been looking forward to this moment... After all the preparation (basically the operation to remove Sean the Stent as well as the colon primary, allowing total focus on the liver), as of Thursday's treatment (cycle 4 of the new era) we now have all THREE available points of attack on my liver's Mets in place:

1. SIRT - OK, it's done what it's going to do, we just do not yet know what this "radio-active scalpel" has done (the scan on 30th December, with a consultation on SIRT's outcome early in 2015).  But given the way I am feeling, we have to assume its effect has been positive!
   
2. Folfox (which when combined with SIRT is briefly known as Folfire!), continuing to do it's best at killing things - given my current wellness, my Oncologist has raised the concentration of the specialist "...ox" part of Folfox, Oxaliplatin.
   
3. Avastin (aka Bevacizumab), the MAB designed to starve the tumor of blood and therefore ensure it "withers" - I assume to make it more susceptible to the Folfox cocktail.  While it has no "real-time" side effects of it's own, it does raise a couple of existing risks (blood clots and colon damage), so I am being particularly fastidious in my Tinzaparin injections!

And I feel so well!!!   Which was wholly confirmed by my "bloods" showing all my vital signs (such as red and white blood cells, as well as overall liver functions) to be either at or above average expected levels.  Even my pulse, blood pressure and respiration was confirmed to be as good as it's ever been!  If only I could put on a little weight - mind you, holding my own" is pretty good in the circumstances.

Mind you, Thursday did try our patience a little - 9 hours in the treatment chair!  Well, quite rightly (with an engineering level of caution) the process includes a "rest" after each new treatment, to ensure any negative reactions can be properly attributed to a single cause, increasing confidence in their restorative treatment.  So I has an hour's rest after the Avastin (which itself was administered slowly this first time).  Then the increased concentration of Oxaliplatin had to delivered more slowly than will be normal in future.  This then accentuated the consequence of our failure to spot a stopped pump, meaning another infusion had to be given afterwards and not at the same time as the Oxaliplatin.

Still I got A LOT of work done!  Both "home" and "professional" - thank heavens for wifi!

So we are, at last, hoping we can consolidate, with any number of "regular" 2 weekly cycles ahead of us, allowing us to continue riding the carousel...