Day 8 Success

We went to the Marsden on Monday and much to our astonishment my bloods were OK and we were able to proceed with the Day 8 treatment. This consisted of a 30 minute infusion of a drug called Gemcitobine, a fully licensed chemo drug. Again it has come out in my legs, so it looks like the Gem and not the Virus is causing the redness below my knees, something to report back on Monday. We are therefore blessed with the rest of the week off, pity it's so cold!!!!!!!!!!

On Monday we are scheduled to go again for monitoring and the all important CT scan, so fingers crossed it is doing something. In myself my legs have reduced in size and I think the circulation has improved a bit. Today's visit to the Nurse (previous visit was on Monday) for my foot wounds showed a big improvement in the heel and progress with the healing of the ulcer on the top of the foot, so I'm really pleased with that, hopefully we have turned a corner. The dressing will still require changing every other day at the moment.

So we are enjoying a bit of chill out time, catching up on some chores at home, nothing too strenuous though.

I'm hoping to have some more photos for you soon, my technician is working on it :-)

Meanwhile Frank had to have a blood test this morning, he was like a baby, man pain is such a sad thing isn't it? You can imagine how much sympathy he got from me :-)

Speak soon after Monday,
Sheila x