Too much Calcium.........

Steve is still very sleepy but is at least now starting to being awake for a few more hours a day.
Yesterday we all were able to see Victoria in her dance show, where she was the STAR and that isn't just us being biased as she won several trophies. It was so lovely that Steve was able to be there, along with Steve's parents and mine. In fact during each of her 4 performances she had her groupies there!

Steve went to the hospital on Wednesday to see Prof Pandha and had the routine blood tests, which showed everything was fine apart from his level of calcium's. The calcium level was too high and as such he had to be put on a drip for 20 mins which Steve slept through :-) The Prof told us that the raised calcium wasn't due to Steve's love of cheese and at that moment all I could think about was the Udder Cream!! But luckily its not linked! In fact its more to do with how your body regulates its self. None the less it does cause extreme tiredness and we were told this could be the cause. However they wanted to rule out whether their was any cancer involved. So Steve was booked in to have a brain scan on Thursday.

We were given the new cancer tablets Affinitor but were told at this stage not to take them, as it would cause Steve to be even more tired!! Which would have meant he would have been asleep 24 hours a day!

The brain scan was on Thursday and the doctor called me on Friday with the result!

And thank god we had a little bit of luck on our side and it was clear!

Have you ever tired to answer the phone with your fingers and toes crossed? Well that's exactly what I did on Friday! I became obsessed with our phones, as I wasn't sure which one they would phone on! I didn't go anywhere without Steve's phone, my phone and the house phone!!!!

Steve luckily was sleeping the whole time and so even though of course he was stressed by it, he wasn't awake enough to really worry too much!!

Because the scan was clear, it does mean that the doctors need to look at what else is causing the sleeping.

So a few changes have been made to his medicine and with the calcium medicine, we were told to monitor things over the weekend.

And I'm pleased to say, it appears things are on the up!! Steve and I and the kids spent the day with his Mum and Dad as it is Muriel's birthday. In the picture is Steve and his Mum and his sister. A great afternoon and made even the better to be laughing and celebrating some good things.






Well if things continue then hopefully Steve will start his new treatment next week.  And as soon as I know will post again.