Changeover day, number crunching and more "thank you"s

It's an in-between sort of day - Christmas is over but New Year has yet to arrive; Jack departed for Bristol just as George arrived from...

the West Wing

We're going to be in the West Wing! No.  Not the TV programme, but the new West Wing at the John Radcliffe Hospital here in Oxford, wher...

the festive season

The run up to Christmas The run up to Christmas felt like a bit of a sprint finish, but we got there in the end: last presents bought, wrapp...

the shortest day

It was a very jolly festive gathering in Bristol yesterday. Katie and George drove through the snow from Manchester to get there, and made i...

one step forward, two steps back

Just when we thought we were moving forward, the going gets tough again.  The tiredness that Steve has been experiencing since his flu jabs ...

moving forward

Barring the unexpected, Steve had his last hospital appointment of 2009 yesterday.  Nothing to do with mesothelioma, but a return trip to th...

Six months on

It's six months since Steve was diagnosed with mesothelioma and I'm pleased to say that he's still going strong.  Looking back, ...

one small step and lots of celebrations

Unless Steve has a late night panic, this is a special day - the first time in ages that he not needed to take an anti-nausea tablet. One sm...

He said... We said.... And the bottom line is......

The hospital clinic was running more than an hour late yesterday, so they kept us in suspense about the outcome of Steve's test results ...

Almost human....sometimes!

Well, it was quite a weekend and Steve managed brilliantly, even though he's still in the process of recovering from the chemo side effe...

The great debate

It's two weeks and a day since Steve's last dose of chemo and we had hoped that the side effects of treatment would have worn off by...

How very strange......... no chemo!

It's Tuesday and we haven't had to spend the day in hospital - how very strange!  Now I think we can truly say that chemo is really ...

A small step forward.... Cycle 6, Day 20

For the first time since the start of cycle 6 of chemotherapy, I wasn't woken by the sight and sound of Steve retching into the emergenc...

Back on familiar territory... Cycle 6, Day 17

Although chemo is over, we were on familiar territory again this morning, back at hospital for Steve's CT scan and X-ray. No food or dri...