Just waiting...

It's been a funny week or so. One day the arm (which seems to have been the focus of everything this past month or so) is OK, and seems to be improving, and then the next day its painful again and the "lump" that I presume is the cancer lesion along with the new bone and tissue growth that's there since the op seems to have a mind of it's own and kind of moves around: one day its on the side, then its on the back of the arm. I am sure it's not quite as bad as that but that's kind of how it feels.

Now last week was pretty quiet except that I finally got my redundancy from Addison Lee. They have been absolutely fantastic, and have supported me brilliantly. I am not going to go into details but suffice to say they did far more than they needed to and i am forever grateful to everyone there for the support and help they have provided.

Next step as I enter the world of benefits is to sort out everything that we can get in such a way that there is no "gap" in the finances. I think we have started that in good time and with the help of our Macmillan benefits advisor we have today begun that process. More on that as it happens.

This week I will be half way through my chemotherapy treatment and as I have said before, I can consider my self, thus far, very lucky in that i have had very few bad effects of the chemo. Tomorrow (Wednesday) we have the usual blood tests and assessment prior to chemotherapy cycle 4 along with an X-ray of the arm, and a review meeting with with the consultant following the arm operation.

Thursday sees an appointment with Mr Raman the oncology consultant, and we should get results of a CT scan which he asked for and which I had last week: hopefully there won't be anything too bad on the scan! Friday and it's the 4th chemo dose at Viking day centre in the morning.

All in all I have to say that apart from some tiredness and loss of weight I really don't feel too bad and life goes on in a pretty relaxed way and I can only hope that's how it continues.