Specialist's Verdict

 I was going to call this post "Eureka" but we haven't quite hit the eureka moment yet. However the Specialist was very pleased. I did not have to have chemo today  but I have to have a scan next week to check that the cancer hasn't spread to any other part of my body and to monitor the minor secondary cancer in my lungs. He will discuss the results with the rest of the oncology team but he expects that initially I will have a rest from chemo for three months but with monthly blood tests to monitor the situation. We are naturally very pleased. John wants to crash open the champagne but I am concerned that I will not be able to drink my half!!

Another cause for celebration, John started to make the stairs yesterday and so far I am delighted. This is only the short flight to the bedrooms which is under construction, I am certainly more anxious about the longer, very heavy other flights.

Work on the " nearly finished bedroom" is temporarily halted because the waste/plug hole which was supplied was the wrong one, hence leak and "plumber" not happy.