Deb has now completed her 7th and 8th cycles of chemotherapy. There was no blog last month as I was away cycling in Mallorca when Deb visited the hospital. Deb had her MRI scan last week. (Scan was in a new privately run scanner located in a portacabin on the old QEH site. The new scanner has twice the power of the usual scanners - 3 Tesla - and is also used by Birmingham University for research). Deb was convinced that the tumours were doing something and approached this latest scan with some trepidation.
At this visit the Cancer centre was like the bad old days when we first started coming. Because of the Bank Holiday they had squeezed two days of clinics into one and the blood tests were taking a very long time. As a result we were at the hospital for two and a half hours. We saw Dr Sanghera who we hadn't seen for a few months. Deb needn't have worried everything was fine. The MRI result showed no change from the previous scan. The tumours were stable (that's what we need strong and stable tumours). Blood results were good and Deb was able to start on her new cycle of chemotherapy.
Next scan in 3 months time. Dr Sanghera did say that providing nothing changed Deb would have 12 cycles of the chemo and then she would then have a rest for a while. So this current period of chemo is set to finish in August.
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