No more doses!
3 seems to be the magic number for this week, as Steves body cant take anymore.
He is now doing his best to recover as quickly as possible as he is desperate to come home!
At 10am this morning Tom decided that this was it for this week.
His blood pressure simply wouldn’t stay higher enough for him to be able to have any more treatment.
Soon after it was decided that their would be no more for this week, he started to become anxious about getting home. He cant come home until his blood pressure stabilises on its own, without the Noradrenalin and at the moment he is still on 8 mils. Its likely to be Sunday but if he does well today then he may get out tomorrow! I know he is desperate to come home and who could blame him!
He has settled down now and seems to be getting his appetite back! But not for the hospital food! Nope! He wanted chicken nuggets! And a vanilla milkshake.
It was a relief almost that I knew I could get this without too much difficulty. So a quick walk to McDonals and an ever quicker ride back in a taxi! I was instructed “Hurry back as they taste horrible cold!!”
He was happy as larry eating his chicken nuggets! The whole ward stinks now of Maccy D’s but better that then what it smelt like only a few days ago............
And now his a Sleep! Ahh bless, him snoring….. Funny I use to nudge him every time he snored at home but now I love it, as it means he is getting some rest.
Steve will come back in 4 weeks time to have a scan, to see whether the treatment has had an effect on the cancer.
Tom spoke to us about the scans which Steve had before the treatment began and he compared the scan to the one he had in July.
Unfortunately their has been growth in the size of the tumours and also a number of new ones have grown but all tumours are confined in the lung and the growth is fairly small but unfortunately it does show that the cancer is not dormant and is growing.
So when he has the next scan they will be looking for shrinkage in the tumour size or no growth. If they do shrink or stay the same, then Steve will come back in 6 weeks for another round but we won’t know that until he has the scan in 4 weeks time. Until that point neither we nor the doctors know whether it has worked or not.
So its sad news that Steves cancer is growing but to be honest it wasn’t a shock to us, as we both knew in our hearts that this would be the case. And if IL2 (the treatment he is having) works then it really doesn’t matter, as it will stop or make the tumours smaller.
I will post again once we have a clear idea on when we are being released! Love to all x
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