So Much For My Happy Ending

Wow, where to start this week. Everything seems to have come at once and i've got lots of new information.

I wasn't due in clinic today for treatment but i had to go and see my doctor anyway so ended up booking in.
Earlier this morning i was sent for a chest x-ray to see how all the treatment is going and if it's done anything to the tumour....

Had it? ......Not exactly

The doctor explained that the chemotherapy i was taking had stopped the tumour from growing any bigger but hadn't made it any smaller.

He then gave my brain an overdose of information as he went into the different things he has planned for me next....

1. Fortnighty Vinblastine
This has been given the go-ahead at the moment and i'm starting with it again next week, same old same old i guess. Not as bad though if it means only fortnighty trips to the hospital

2. Radiotherapy
This is another option the doctor was looking at, but he has yet to hear back from the radiographer. Frankly i don't think this will go ahead, they had to stop it last time.

3. ABVD
This is the most complex one of them all. It consists of four strong chemotherapy drugs that i will have fortnighty in the clinic. They have to be given over a period of 5 hours so i will be a day case patient. Not many side effects to these apart from the worst one i guess....hair loss. Which once again means that if this goes ahead i will lose my messy mop of red hair for about the fourth time, gutted!
The doctor is not sure about this option yet either and is waiting to hear from his colleagues around the world. Even the most skilled cancer doctors are baffled with my case, like i've said before "I'm worldwide famous, but for all the wrong reasons"
I'm there special case - which probably means feed her any drugs as we don't know how it works.

So those are my three options - i have to go back in a few weeks to see if the doctor has heard anything about where to go next...joys!

Stuck once again in another rut, i just wish they'd get on and decide what to do with me next. It's the constant waiting and not knowing that is the worst.

Anyway will update again next week :)
Thanks for reading!