By Gillian
I thought I’d give my version of the events on Sunday, as I am convinced that Chris can’t remember half of what went on! We’d had a really good day on the Saturday. I had been worried about Chris standing for hours in the queue for the Hoard, but the vast majority of the [...]
By Gillian
Chris was meant to go into hospital yesterday for an overnight stay to have his third round of chemotherapy. Unfortunately, there is an outbreak of Norovirus at Cheltenham General hospital, and apparently some wards are closed. The upshot is that there wasn’t a bed for him yesterday. We phoned again this morning, and still [...]
By Gillian
We know that Chris will have good days and bad days, but on the whole things have been going OK for the past few weeks. So we were unprepared for this morning. He was very sick indeed on waking – threw up six times in two hours, and couldn’t keep anything down – not [...]
By Gillian
This second chemotherapy cycle really seems to have knocked Chris backwards. He had been feeling so much better at the end of the last cycle but, notwithstanding the really enjoyable weekend we had with my sister and her boyfriend, he’s been feeling sick ever since he came out of hospital last Friday. The house [...]
By Gillian
We saw one of the oncologists yesterday at Worcester Hospital, and she confirmed that Christopher’s blood tests showed that his liver function is back to normal. His yellow colour has also faded, so we’re confident that he’s now over the obstructive jaundice. His white cell count was also satisfactory. So that all means that [...]
By Gillian
I found yesterday to be a very hard day, as we had an appointment booked with our solicitors to start putting Christopher’s affairs in order for when/if he becomes too ill to look after them himself. Although we hope that is still a long way off, it made me realise in a visceral way [...]
By Gillian
It’s very difficult to plan ahead at the moment, as Chris feels so different from one day to the next. For the last few days he’s been having a run of feeling remarkably well, and has picked up some of his favourite hobbies (photography, Librivox) again. I suppose we got over-confident, thinking that we’d [...]
By Gillian
Right from the initial diagnosis, we’ve been told by all the healthcare professionals (consultants, specialist nurses, dietician) that it’s vitally important for Chris to avoid losing more weight than he can possibly help. Essentially, we need to take normal dieting rules, and invert them – so he needs snacks between meals, desserts, no low-fat [...]
