.....and thanks from David for the good wishes. We did have a sort of great day as it was David's appointment with Prof. C at Limoges. His PSA had stayed down for the second 3 months on Anandron, so almost all the discussion was about the MRI result. The Prof confirmed there was no evidence of spread or lymph node involvement, but there was a 3 mm node in his Prostate.
He can't tell whether it is cancer or not without a biopsy - it may be scar tissue fron the RT 5 years ago. He hadn't had an MRI since RT so it may have been there all along. You can imagine that David's not over the moon about a biopsy especially when he was told the don't give a local anaesthetic out here - although the Prof did promise "E wouldn't ' urt, even a leetle beet"! However, although I didn't think I would ever say this, we are sort of hoping that it is cancer, because that would explain the rise in PSA and also because if it is the Prof said he would be able to have HIFU, which is unbelievable after all this time. The biopsy has been arranged for the 28th, so we won't have too long to wait.
If it is scar tissue then we just poddle on as before, I guess, untill the Anandron stops working. He did mention another drug he could have after that, but I didn't recognise the name - probably the French name.
Anyway that was his birthday prezzie - not too bad at this stage.
I'm up to my neck in Tomatoes - they're coming out of my ears(there must be an appropriate cartoon somewhere.) I planted about 20 plants this year as we have had blight problems every year. This year, as it has been so dry there has been none and so I have been making Tomato sauce - 20 litres - Tomato soup yesterday - about 6 litres and I still have a few kilo left so am going to have a go at Ketchup next and then use those that don't ripen to make chutney! Mother Earth or what?
Sadly little Skye hasn't come back - it's nearly 3 weeks now, so I guess we just have to accept her fate now. Her baby, Fleur misses her too and is being very fussy and wandering around looking lost. On a happier note, Annie the Orphan chick is getting really grown up now, but still runs away from all the other chickens and seems to have moved permanently into David's workshop. When he complains about the chicken s **t I do remind him that it was him who decided to rescue her instead of leaving it to chicken law to sort out. I spent 8 weeks faithfully teaching that chick to peck, scratch etc, so she is going to have what she wants now.
Well must get back to those tomatoes. Please pass on our news on Multiply - I will try and get into it soon - once all the harvesting is done, and our troops of October visitors have been and gone, I shall have plenty of time on my hands. I don't know why they always want to visit one after the other but they do.
Let me know what is happening with you now - do you have to have more Chemo or haven't they decided yet? Love to all the family and take care.
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ReplyDeleteHi Phil,
.....and thanks from David for the good wishes. We did have a sort of great day as it was David's appointment with Prof. C at Limoges. His PSA had stayed down for the second 3 months on Anandron, so almost all the discussion was about the MRI result. The Prof confirmed there was no evidence of spread or lymph node involvement, but there was a 3 mm node in his Prostate.
He can't tell whether it is cancer or not without a biopsy - it may be scar tissue fron the RT 5 years ago. He hadn't had an MRI since RT so it may have been there all along. You can imagine that David's not over the moon about a biopsy especially when he was told the don't give a local anaesthetic out here - although the Prof did promise "E wouldn't ' urt, even a leetle beet"! However, although I didn't think I would ever say this, we are sort of hoping that it is cancer, because that would explain the rise in PSA and also because if it is the Prof said he would be able to have HIFU, which is unbelievable after all this time.
The biopsy has been arranged for the 28th, so we won't have too long to wait.
If it is scar tissue then we just poddle on as before, I guess, untill the Anandron stops working. He did mention another drug he could have after that, but I didn't recognise the name - probably the French name.
Anyway that was his birthday prezzie - not too bad at this stage.
I'm up to my neck in Tomatoes - they're coming out of my ears(there must be an appropriate cartoon somewhere.) I planted about 20 plants this year as we have had blight problems every year. This year, as it has been so dry there has been none and so I have been making Tomato sauce - 20 litres - Tomato soup yesterday - about 6 litres and I still have a few kilo left so am going to have a go at Ketchup next and then use those that don't ripen to make chutney! Mother Earth or what?
Sadly little Skye hasn't come back - it's nearly 3 weeks now, so I guess we just have to accept her fate now. Her baby, Fleur misses her too and is being very fussy and wandering around looking lost.
On a happier note, Annie the Orphan chick is getting really grown up now, but still runs away from all the other chickens and seems to have moved permanently into David's workshop. When he complains about the chicken s **t I do remind him that it was him who decided to rescue her instead of leaving it to chicken law to sort out. I spent 8 weeks faithfully teaching that chick to peck, scratch etc, so she is going to have what she wants now.
Well must get back to those tomatoes. Please pass on our news on Multiply - I will try and get into it soon - once all the harvesting is done, and our troops of October visitors have been and gone, I shall have plenty of time on my hands. I don't know why they always want to visit one after the other but they do.
Let me know what is happening with you now - do you have to have more Chemo or haven't they decided yet?
Love to all the family and take care.
Sue & David xxxxx
Thanks for passing that on, Phil.
ReplyDeleteI am overdue in posting a reply to Sue's last mail to me, so this was a timely reminder.