Hi Trev & Deb. Just back from Barcelona after a week's break. Delighted to hear that you've only got five more RT's to go. Soon get that frying over with and into recovery mode.

Good to hear you're managing to eat something. Hope you have a restful weekend.

Best wishes


Chris

Hi! All,
Had my 25th R/T and it has finally hit me that there is a great deal of pain across my stomach from the zapping, 4 to go and these are concentrated beams so as to not effect anything else inside me. Well it's the weekend and I am going to try and relax, we had 2 tonne of organic dirt delivered to build up our garden and plant some more pritty things(this is Deb's department, because if I touch a plant it's DEAD( that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it )).
Chris, how lovelly it would be to be able to just go to Barcelona, the distance you have to go to go to Barcelona is the about the same distance from Adelaide to melbourne by road and we haven't even left the country. Eating isn't a problem it's the quantity that is low.
Angie, What's this dealing behind my laptop screen with Deb?.
Nigel, I had a PEG and used to have HiCalNH fed into the tube by syringe, which was a bastard but thats been out for 9 months now and eating is not a great problem apart from no saliva and hardly any taste, and like you if I have a pie I have to have heaps of sauce or gravy, a suggestion if you like crushed tomato from a can that works real well as well(well well).
Anyway thanks for the contact and support.
"I'll be back"
TREV.

Hi Ange ~ after a great deal of deliberation (what's it been ~ about 10 days????) I've decided to pass up your very generous offer of an exchange. Not because it doesn't sound like an irresistable offer, mind you ~ it's just that, well um, er .......... with the drama in the international economy and the fact that the Aussie $ is worth basically nothing, I couldn't afford the postage for starters and then we'd have to find some way of getting Trevor over there with his eyes closed (that's how they are these days!). Thanks for thinking of me though. LOL.

Howdy Chris ~ I'm so impressed by the exotic holidays you are all able to take! I hope you had a fabulous holiday and are well rested. Did you have great weather while you were in Barcelona? I know nothing of these places so can't even picture where you have been. One of Trevor's sisters and two lots of our friends have just returned from extended overseas jaunts and another is planning her next trip (to Turkey) for the New Year. We just have to dine out on everyone else's tales!
I guess you're all getting ready to hunker down for the winter. We are starting to move into mid spring now and the weather is really starting to pick up. Forecast for tomorrow is 33 degrees (ugh! ~ not a hot weather fan). Mind you, we have been having some truly beautiful days ~ around 20 - 22ish. Cool nights and lovely mild days ~ should be more of it.

Must away. It's 12.34 AM so I should get to bed. I expect not to be able to move tomorrow after shifting almost 2 tonne of loam this arvo. Ouch!
Love
Deborah

Trev : organic dirt? organics dont do dirt!!

Deb : pity about the exchange, I dont know who would have got the best deal!

Hi! Angie,
Organic dirt? isn't that what you grow organic fruit & vegetables in?. It's no good asking me as Deb is the gardener in the house I am just the overseer as anything that I touch dies.
I am sitting here at 1230am on Sunday and it is 230pm your time and there isn't any nasty remarks about me YET, I have taken my sleeping pills and am going to bed as I have tried sending this post 3 times and somehow have deleted the first 2 attemps so hopefully this one will make it.
"I'll be back"
TREV

Sweet dreams, We are off to have a super dinner which I will pay for on my debit card as I have a feeling the banks might freeze over tomorrow and this could be the last one!

Hi to you both ,would just like to say you two are an amazing couple with a superb personality and great sense of humour .Congratulations to you both .

Hope the countdown to end of treatment goes in quickly ,u are nearly there Trev well done what a trouper you are .

Your lovely wife is amazing and strong do hope you have recovered from your gardening that was some job girl .

Think you deserve a long hot soak with a wee bottle of wine.

As for you Trev u definately deserve a wee Oscar yourself ,your stamina and sense of humour is truly amazing.

Best Wishes,

Bell and Paul.

Hi Ange
How was your last supper??? Now that's a bit of a worry!

Thanks for your kind words Bell. I read your emails with Trevor's sister-in-laws accent, which is just lovely. She is from Glasgow and she was asking me about you when they were over last weekend from Melbourne. Are you a highlander or and easterner or a westerner????? Do you not have states in Scotland and so you get divided up according to just where in the country you're from?
I did give some thought to a soak in the tub when I came in from my dirt shifting on Saturday however I think had I gotten in I wouldn't have been able to get out ~ for more than one reason (have I mentioned my weight gain????) I like to have what I call Triple B therapy ~ a bath a book and a brandy. Very therapeutic. Thankfully I'm not nearly as stiff as I thought I would be so all in all it was a good, productive weekend.
Take care.
Love
Deborah

Hi! All,
Well R/T26 and 3 to go, the building that the RT Suite is in is a very long building and to have to walk from the car to the suite is a challenge and luckilly I have Deb to lean on, however today I also had to go further to the Chemo Suite to get my PICC Line dressings changed and a new bottle fitted, the Chemo nurse called a doctor as she thought I was very pale & the doc prescribed some Oxycodone painkillers (1 10mg tablet in the morning and 1 - 2 5mg tablets every 3 hours if needed, hell if I take them I will be flat out all day not just 16hors a day, anyway after leaving the Chemo Suite we had to go to the R/T suite and thats a heap of walking, I was nearly going to kick an old pensioner out of her electric scooter and ride it to the suite BUT I didn't have enough energy to push her off. So when we did get to the RT Suite I had about lost it and a lot of my sense of humour had left me.
Angie, Our government has guarenteed that every bodies bank deposits are safe for 3 years (how it would be nice to HAVE a bank balance) & my credit card would probably laugh at me if I tried to present it to the cashier.
Bell, thanks for your comments, but i'd have to climb the stairs to receive the oscar and that would knock me further down the loop, so I'll let someone else have it.
Anyway Gals "I'll be back".
TREV

Well hi Deborah, we sort of have counties in Scotland .Highlanders come from up north in Scotland and have a very distict accent .Edinburgh which is the capitol also has different dialects and areas but in the centre like morningside etc they consider themselves quite posh and upper crust .Glasgow on the other hand also has a posh side especially places like Newton Mearns where the very wealthy live there are other places like Bothwell where the house prices are also sky high .

Glasgow west end is fabulous and has a range of very posh arty farty types that range from expensive flats and residences to the opposite spectrum where people from abroad possibly would not understand a word including myself on occasions ,lol.

I originally came from a place called Barrhead which is in Renfrewshire county district but my parents originated from Crosshill on the Ayrshire coast which is south of Glassgow, Paul and I moved down here after he retired and we love it ,we are on the sea front with lovely views but also get the winter currents and salt air lol.

Like you I am the gardener and love it,I have just been pulling out all the summer bedding plants and then I have to wrap some of the palms up with gardeners fleece as in October we get the start of the equinox,these winds comes in strong and fierce from the sea bringing salt which burns the leaves .Bet u r killing yourself laughing at this . Anyways ...Like u I swear by the triple B. Bet u r thinking I should be drinking Whiskey ,lol

But I agree, I always feel good when I have completed .Next month I start to plant out the tubs with winter bulbs .Paul loves his golf and we are right beside it .So as a birthday present I got him a man sized topiary golfer which I planted in the centre of the front grass complete with golf club.He gets so much attention, but last year I did not fleece him up quickly enough and he has developed a bit of a bare left leg have tried everything to sort this but looks as if it is going to take some time .However he is now fleeced up and looks like an Arab out of Alladins lamp so think i may need to add some green mesh round him.

Goodness me Debs look what u have staretd.. Gardeners World.We will get black balled .

Bell.

Don't worry, Bell. I am partial to the Scots. Was in Inverness for a day in early September and just been back from a college meeting in Glasgow today, and have to go again for a conference in early November!

Hi Trev ,joking apart I remember vividly Paul's state of health in the last week of treatment 3 years ago he too was having Chemo (cisplatin and 5 FU) plus the 35 RT sessions .He also took nutrapoenia sepsis in the middle .He was so exhausted and in terrible pain with his face and mouth and to be honest could not really walk for more than a few minutes .he had to be hospitalized till end of treament .

Once I got him home and had to take him to clinic every 2 weeks for checks as he was so frail it was awful.We had to get to clinic then down corridors for speech therapist and a different one for nutritionist .I had to pull him out of bed and get him dressed then manouver him into car will never forget it .

When we got to hospital I went into reception and managed to get a wheelchair for him otherwise we would have been stuck .Is there no way your hospittal can provide you with this ,worth asking.

It is very exhausting for you Trev but in a few months time you will start to feel stronger and things will get easier .Paul was exactly the same with the RT fatigue he practically slept the clock round for months and this resulted in his muscles becoming weak and his legs just seemed to become wee spurtles .

You are doing so well and nearly there now .Won't be long till you are striding back out there feeling like your old self .

Thinking of you ,
Bell and Paul.

That is good to hear ,lol...Phew! I hope you received a warm welcome and good hospitality .Pity you were not coming down the Ayrshire coast and we could have got a haggis on for you .

Bell and Paul.

Way to go Trev, tomorrow must be your last one. How are you and Debs? The only way is up now Trev.

Love
Mum
xx

1 2 go 1 2 go
Yep I am almost there and after my last R/T they remove my PICC Line and then there is nothing going on or in me, YAHOO. Saw the Specialist Surgeon and he was happy to wait 3 months before my next visit, However the Onc/Rad Specialist will want to check me out with their Scans & Xrays, hopefully the bastard has been shrunk or destroyed (I will need to have further Chemo Treatments in the Chemo Suite over time.
Tommorrow when we go to the RAH we are taking our little Grandson Marley, what a thrill (not wanting to be repetitive BUT he is sure a beaut kid and he makes my day just to see him)Deb thinks that I will be in the Pusher with Marley on my lap .
I have been put on Oxycodone Tablets and BOY do they work I seem to be floating and the key's on my Laptop keep shifting about, But no pain
Well I'll fill you all in tommorrow after my discharge .
"I'll be back"
TREV