Eureka

Yes, we have now hit the "eureka" moment.  I saw the specialist this morning and he told me that the MRI scan showed that the cancer is blocked and the small tumours in my lungs have actually shrunk a little. We would say that I am in remission but they don't use that expression here, they just say that I am stable. Whatever the terminology it is great news. To be honest I felt that that would be the result as I feel so much better but I was anxious not to count my chickens.

I am to see the specialist once a month and he will monitor the situation with the aid of blood tests. The side effects of the chemo have just started to dissipate so a few weeks without it will give my body a chance to recover. I am to have a bone density scan, to ensure that I can have a hormone treatment in the future which will be belt and braces to ward off the cancer.

Now for more important matters...........we invited some friends over for Sunday lunch last weekend and our friends Annie and Donnie kindly brought us a trailer-load of manure! Enough for all of the vegetable patch!

We've had rain off and on since then but this afternoon John was able to spread it evenly over the beds so it can work in during the winter.(It's getting late now, that's why the photo's dark!)