Christmas decorations made by Deb and me at our 'craft' session at St Giles Hospice - impressive eh?
On 13 December, Deb had her seventh MRI scan since her radiotherapy treatment. This was three months since her last scan on 17 September.
(Scan was carried out at 3:45 on a Sunday afternoon! - good to see the NHS is making full use of expensive equipment. Fred, the Macmillan nurse told me that the QE has the facility to carry out about 200 MRI scans per month but demand is now running at about 500 per month. We get high priority but it is still difficult to fit us in.)
We got the results at the QE on the following day. We did not see Dr Sanghera but his registrar Dr Petit. She was kind but was unfamiliar with Deb's history and was not as experienced in interpreting scans.
The scan result was good. The grade IV part of the tumour was approximately the same size as on the previous scan. The chemotherapy is still doing its work. This is now 11 months without significant progress of the tumour.
Deb's blood test results were also good and Deb continues with the chemotherapy.
For some reason Deb had not felt confidant about the results of this scan so we came out of the hospital very relieved.
Next scan in 3 months time.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE. (Well the one or two who bother to read this)
