Today has been a full day again. After a Vineyard business meeting with Simon, it was off to Kensington House for a catch up with our friends from Sydney. Tony and Paula seem to be missing Adelaide, but Sydney does have some excitement.
Meetings all day today, and 10 minutes for lunch so it was busy.
On the health front I agreed to go into a trial of some nutrition formula and it started last Friday. It involves drinking a formula of nutrition and it is disgusting!! Why did I ever agree to this? It is actually the same formula that is pumped into me over the first week through my feeding tube from what I gather. I ask myself the question... Why have I agreed to add 7 days to the pain? The answer is compelling. You do this so a patient in two years time benefits, and I assume I will benefit from others before me. Well that is what I want to believe.
I am recording everything I am eating over the next 3 days as part of the same study.
Tomorrow I meet the Surgeon for the third and final time before show time.
Professor David Watson is doing the surgery and I am very comfortable with all that we have discussed. Well that doesn't mean I am either looking forward to it, nor am I excited about it... But I am confident in the need to do it.
What I may not have covered in earlier blogs is that there is only small window of opportunity to do this operation after the radio and chemotherapy is complete, and there is only one shot for a complete cure - and this is it. The scaring of the Oesophagus from the radiotherapy treatments results in surgery options diminishing after around 8 weeks.
My Clexane self injections are creating bruising but is going well, can't say I will ever get used to it but my last self injection finishes on Wednesday. Now there is something to look forward to.
So much to do, and no time to do it... As we have said before, having Cancer keeps you extremely busy.
More news tomorrow after I have seen the Professor, and we will find out about the CT scan results from last week. Hopefully they will be good.
That's it folks... Until tomorrow.
Hi Toopy,
ReplyDeleteGreat that all is going so well. When you talk of Kuitpo reminds me of home,I grew up on a property between Ashbourne and Meadows-then they locked me up at school in Adelaide!! I had a primary school friend at Kuitpo such a lovely area - enjoy.
Best of luck with the op. sounds as though you have done all you can to prepare. Much love Dawnieoxo