Hi Trev
I have been following your story with great interest. We seem to have quite similar circumstances. My doctor is, also, now telling me that I might have to have more chemo. I said no to more radiotherapy as it did not work before and the after-effects have changed my life totally (for the worse).
Have you had a lot of problems with your saliva? People talk of dry mouth I seem to be the opposite, too much really thick saliva which I have to keep spitting out. Not sure whether it would be better to have the glands removed. Problem is I do not have that much faith in doctors not to mess things up even more lol.
Anyway, all my best wishes to you I will look out for more of your 'Blogs'
All the best from London
David

Hi Trev, it's great to hear from you as always. Keep the jokes coming nothing like a bit of laughter in life is there Glad you have Deb to watch over you and make sure you don't do too much. Hope your recovery continues to be speedy.Just dreaming of all that lovely sunshine not had much of it here this year.

Love to you and Deb
Mum
xxx

Hi! All,
It's been a few days since my last post and apart from sleeping all day and most of the night not much has changed, I get so tired(excuse the pun) of sitting and/or laying around doing nothing. My Youngest son and his Girlfriend had their engagement party last night and I managed to get through most of the party until I was far too knackered to stay and somehow managed to get to the car and home.
The night was made worthwhile by the fact Marley (Grandson 9months) was there as happy as Larry and a joy to be with, they should make Grandchildren available for ALL cancer sufferers as they make you forget all about your problems and think of them( of course then they get older and you can't lift them up to cuddle)
Deb and I are going away for A week so will take my laptop to keep in touch.
Love to all
"I'll Be Back"
TREV

Hi Trev,

Congratulations to your son and fiance. Have a lovely time away.

L o L

Joan

Hi Trev, congrats to your sun and his fiance and well done on making it through a good chunk of the party. Hagg.

Hi! Guy's and Gals,
Well we had a great time on our holiday (I slept through most of it) but all in all it was very nice. Then, I had my appointment with then Oncology Specialist who after checking me over was reluctant to inform me that he believes the R/T and Chemo where ineffectule as I shouldn't be having pain where I am and he believes my liver is enlarged,so I am to have a CAT scan on Saturday and see the RT Specialist on the following Monday to get the results and then on the next Monday I am to see the Chemo Registra about my next lot of Chemo which they are going to try a concoction of 2 types of Chemo, Gemcitasine (Gemzar) & a trial of Tarcera (which is used in Lung Cancer treatment. So here's hoping this will do the trick. We are concerned that the side effects may be a bit much and would like to know if anyone over there has had any dealings with these drugs?, as we have to decide if we wont these or not.
Apart from all the dreary shit the rain has started and so that has cleared the air and we look forward to be hearing from our good friends out there in the electronic world.
"I ain't done YET"
Love TREV

Hi Trev
So sorry to hear that you're still in pain and heading for more chemo, but pleased that you managed to get away.

What's the temperature like over there? We had snow about a week ago, which was really unusual for October.

Bye for now. Way past my bedtime.

Best wishes


Chris

Hi Trev. Bummer about the chemo but you never seem defeated. Good on you and best of luck with it all. Hagg.

Hi Trev

Thought you were all done with that, so sorry to hear that there is more to come. Will be thinking about you.

L o L

Joan xx

Hi Trev

Great to hear that you had a good holiday but not so great that you need yet more treatment. I know you will cope with this with the same indefatigable attitude as always - you can't keep a good man down!

Very best wishes
Gwyn

Hi! All,
Well here am again with more grizzles and moans and even seeing my own GP was told the same thing (he could have lied and said I am fine and soon I will wake up and find it was a dream ). Latest thing is angziety(spelling?), I tried some "Lorazepam" to see if they would calm me down and I went for 3 days "Hic-cupping" , so off the Lorazepam and now I am trying some of Deb's "Nervaplex oral spray", this so far seems to work as I am not feeling quite so tense BUT I walk around like a zombie(and with my build thats a scary site).
"I'll be back"
TREV

Hi Trev, you know you can always gizzle here. Sorry to hear about the anxiety, maybe a few days of zombie will give you a bit of a break and chill you out. Hang in there. Hagg.

Hi! All,I have just started my course of READI-CAT2 prior to my cat acans and Drinking this stuff is like drinking lead based white paint(not that I have drunk paint BUT I can imagine!) and I feel the effect would be the same I have to have my second bottle of it on the way into the RAH and then wait for the the Scan (I am not alowed to go to the loo all this time), with it being a Saturday I have to go through Emergency and that will meen a long wait and no toilet break (am I grizzling again???)
Thinking of you ALL,
"I'll be back"
TREV

Hi Trev

Thinking of you and will keep you in my thoughts. Love to Debs also
Mum
xxx

Hi! All,
Well here I go trying to sound blase about something that is killing me I feel that there is no other way to put it other than to tell it straight. Went into the Hospital today to get the results of the Scan only to be told (and it was difficult I beleive for the Doctor as well) that the results show that there is something in my Liver and that the treatment had not treated the site and when you put the numbers together I get 12 months to spend with my lovelly wife, lover, mate, best friend and any other word that you could come up with.
The Specialist has advised me to try the next lot of Chemo as this may or may not help, I am happy(if thats easy to say) to try it but if the side effects are too much I can opt out and go it alone.I am trying to get my head around this and will have to get back to it later.
I have told everyone to "Stay Strong" and this accounts for me as well so I"ll stay in touch just to know that I have good friends all over the world, so thanks ALL
"I'll be back"
TREV