Dh's visit to the oncologist

[Blandmum]

Parsons egg, good (and bad ) in parts.

Bad news is that the chemo has stopped working and there is significant growth in the tumours in the lymph glands in his abdomen.

Good news is that there is now growth in the tumours in his lungs, since he was last scanned ( a month ago) and there is less fluid in his lungs.

So the current chemo has been stopped, and doc is exploring possible other treatment options (not sure that she eill find any, and she may be letting us down gradually).

Dh is increasingly breathless, and she has suggested a blood test to see if he is anaemic (since lungs are no worse and actually have less fluid in them)

Not great, but it could be worse

aww MB hugs and choccies to you all. Your strength continues to leave me in awe

Again sending best wishes to you. It must be so difficult living in this permanent limbo. x

xx to you and Mr MB.

Thanks for the update.

Thinking of you all

MB, I think of you all often.

Well done to Mr MB for keeping some of those bastard tumours at bay.

Have been wondering how you are all doing.

Fingers crossed she finds some new treatment. (We can but hope eh?)

Thinking of you MB

MB, thinking of you and MrMB

sorry it's not all good news

hope they manage to come up with something else

x

Is your DH happy at stopping the chemo?

Must be so hard for both of you

Thinking of you MB.
Hoping there are some other treatment options for you.
All the best, VP xx

Thank you for updating us, MB. Please god that the consultant finds something new to help MrMB.

Thinking of you all.
x

All the best MB

(did you mean NO growth in the lungs?)

Best wishes to you all. Wish I had something more profound or productive to add. Thinking of you.

Well, thank heavens for the news that is good, but the reality of the not so good must feel a chill wind, and i'm sorry to hear that.

Fingers crossed for a way to tackle his breathlessness.

Thinking of you.

Love to you all.

Thinking of you, MB.

He had already semi decided to stop the chemo, given that the lst round left him basically bed ridden for 2 weeks, and they get worse every time. I don't think that he could have physically coped with another.

I'm not getting my hopes up about more treatment, since this is the end of the second type, and from this point out things get more and more speculative.

But our consultant is very good and will explore the options and we both trust her to do the best for dh.

Phew at the good news. Sorry for the less-than-good.

thinking of you

these visits must be quite nerve wracking for you both

TBH, you just sort of get used to them, and what worse news can they give us? We already have the worst prognosis. It all just becaomes managing things for the best

Yes never thought of it like that.Good that you trust your doctors .

She is fantastic. Even though we had been effectivly 'signed off' active treatment in the run up to Christmas, she kept up with the research and contacted us about the possibility of using a second line treatment, which was effective, at least initially.

she didn't look too chipper today which makes me a little sad, but it is how it is.