Edited by Sarah Cornell, Monday, 28 Sept 2015, 15:55
I've gone all quiet. Only because there's not much to say.
Last Monday (21st) I saw the oncologist, two weeks after my last radiotherapy fraction. All is good from her point of view. She's arranged that in early December I have an MRI and a week later a follow-up with her. The expectation is that the scan won't look any different to the previous one. The December-scan will become my new baseline scan, that is any future scans will be compared to the December-scan to determine any changes.
The initial aim is to get the scans annual, and then move them further apart when they show nothing is happening. The extremely-subject-to-change rough-schedule previously mooted was something like: baseline (3 months after treatment end), 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, maybe 3 years, definitely 5 years, maybe 7.5 years, definitely 10 years. When you're dealing with something that grows 1-2mm per year at most, you have to wait a goodly while to see anything happening.
So, really, not much more to blog about. I may witter the occasional thing on here just to witter, but the "excitement" of the last five months done with for now.
Oh, and last of all, our holiday week was great - I was quite tired but able to keep up most of the time. I took the Hasselblad with me but didn't get around to actually using it ... the Nikon Df being the lightest-weight beast I own got most use!
What now?
I've gone all quiet. Only because there's not much to say.
Last Monday (21st) I saw the oncologist, two weeks after my last radiotherapy fraction. All is good from her point of view. She's arranged that in early December I have an MRI and a week later a follow-up with her. The expectation is that the scan won't look any different to the previous one. The December-scan will become my new baseline scan, that is any future scans will be compared to the December-scan to determine any changes.
The initial aim is to get the scans annual, and then move them further apart when they show nothing is happening. The extremely-subject-to-change rough-schedule previously mooted was something like: baseline (3 months after treatment end), 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, maybe 3 years, definitely 5 years, maybe 7.5 years, definitely 10 years. When you're dealing with something that grows 1-2mm per year at most, you have to wait a goodly while to see anything happening.
So, really, not much more to blog about. I may witter the occasional thing on here just to witter, but the "excitement" of the last five months done with for now.
Oh, and last of all, our holiday week was great - I was quite tired but able to keep up most of the time. I took the Hasselblad with me but didn't get around to actually using it ... the Nikon Df being the lightest-weight beast I own got most use!