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Today didn't start off too well as I actually got a bit annoyed with a cancer SURVIVOR :-0 I was at my ballet class and was offered advice which I wasn't really up for and I thought we'd finished the conversation but she brought it up again after the class had started. I don't want to think about cancer at ballet, it's my favourite time of week for switching off from all of that, I really have to , as my ballet skills aren't all that yet and I have to concentrate... But anyway I have a week's su… Continue

Today I sort of got my scan results. The scan was done the day the oncologists come to the island but it wasn't completed before they left. My oncology nurse has told me today that the masses/mets are a bit bigger, but until the oncologist sees the scans themselves we won't be able to make a decision on further treatment. That will be next Thursday. The good news is that now the tumours are proving to be 'chemo-resistant' I'll be allowed to go on a spanky new drug that has had good results. The… Continue

Toady was scan day, almost a relief to get it over with. Initially I felt quite cheery and went alone-if Tom took a day off for every procedure he wouldn't work much...Anyway afterwards I was driving along home feeling a bit sorry for myself (came via the farmer's market for a v.healthy dinner to compensate for my post traumatic scan brownie) and I was having a chat with God saying 'if i was still living in Manchester I would have met up with my sister or any one of my friends from my old church… Continue

Well, I have two more days in blissful ignorance before my CT on Thursday may well have me back on the chemo treadmill again. I'm so hoping not. Because I wasn't due to be scanned before late December I had taken on a couple of concerts and I'm worried about blowing them out. Had a fab rehearsal today, I'm a bout to record a rough draft of my CD next week- very exciting-chemo would not be my preferred treatment at the mo... Playing such lovely music has to be good for my health. I'm still a bit… Continue

haven't posted anything for a while due to chemo holiday. My mets haven't gone, but have gone down. The oncologist has promised a groovy new drug but I can't have it until the tumours start growing again. I feel like a ticking time bomb...physically quite normal but it' seems a little like a long chess game with cancer as the opponent. When will the next move be? We're due to go away tomorrow for the first time in ages. Very exciting, although we've had one ferry cancelled already due to bad wea… Continue