Great News

Great news from the hospital. The biopsies of the lymph nodes were negative - indicating that the cancer has not spread. Elly will not therefore have to have chemotherapy. The doctors are also happy that the margin between where the tumor was located and the chest wall was sufficient for there to be no requirement for radiotherapy. This has to be confirmed next Tuesday when all the medics have their multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meeting, but the surgeons are pretty certain of their ground. Elly will have to be on tamoxifen from here on in, but that's small price to pay for peace of mind. Once again our thanks to everyone for their kind wishes and words of support. No more blogs now unless Tuesday's MDT meeting comes up with something new. Over and Out.

Slow Progress

Elly is progressing slowly but surely. She's eating well and feeling well, but is still in some pain and gets quite tired. We're more than happy with her progress however. Unless there is something significant to report, the next blog will be on Friday after we've seen the doctors and have the result of the histopathology on the lymph nodes.

Message from Elly

Elly wants me to say thank you to everybody who has sent cards, love and best wishes. It's great to know there is that much love out there.

Great News

Clearly the hospital have had enough of her, and in any case, I was running out of crockery and the laundry basket was getting full, so Elly has been sent home. She is doing remarkably well. Hopefully she will carry on going from strength to strength.

Supplementary Entry

I got the washing machine to work this evening, well at least it's going round and round and I can hear water running. Who says us men are useless?

More Progress

Elly's looking even better today and much more content. She tells me that she had a little weep yesterday evening over everything and nothing, but after 10 minutes or so she was back to her positive self. The nurse on the ward told her that it was perfectly normal to have these "moments" every now and again. Elly is now eating quite well and taking the occasional wander up and down corridors. She's really looking forward to visits tomorrow by the three grand children. As an aside I think J*** will probably put a comment on this entry about Nurse Grunhilda, but that's another story.

Looking Good

Elly looks a right fraud today.  Haven't seen her looking so well for ages, mind you the fact that she's picked up a bit of sun tan over the last two weeks might have something to do with that.  She's feeling well in herself but is in quite a bit of pain and although they are offering her strong pain killers, she is only taking less powerful ones because she doesn't like "feeling woosey".  Did someone mention the word stubborn?  She's been out of bed a few times and has some physio exercises to do, but she doesn't like the food.  On the whole she is doing remarkably well and there does not seem to be any psychological issues going on, she's appears to be very satisfied with the shape she's in, literally.  Her consultant has been to see her and told her that the operation went "fine".  So, fingers crossed, if she continues as she has been, she will soon be well on the way to a good recovery.  The only dark clouds on the horizon of course are the histopathology results, but we'll deal with them when the time comes, the important thing right now is that she recovers from the op.