Good news - verbal report of Helen's most recent staging CT scan of everything - no change in anything. I assume that means no more metastases and that the tumor and fluid affecting the R lung remain the same. This is great to hear. Not sure what it means for prognosis or whether it means the Iressa is proven to be useful or proven to be having no effect but either way the cancer is evidently pretty inactive.
I think this makes sense in other ways as some of the unpleasant paraneoplastic syndromes we had to deal with in the past seem to have stopped and also she has been able to put some weight back on and to keep it on whereas when the cancer was more metabolically active I think it was chewing up all her calories.
Sadly the weight is making her unhappy as it makes her belly feel uncomfortable and not like her own but I think she is looking much healthier in the face and body overall and it's much better than being a skeleton.
In the last week I have started treating her for a urine infection and I think she is a little more mentally with it since starting the antibiotics - although this could just be the inexplicable swings of her varying cognition.
During the week just gone Douglas has been the main carer while I have been at work and he and Helen went out for lunch with Kaye. The 3 of us all went out for dinner and drinks last night and we also made a brief trip through the Northern Editions Print studio to check out Dion's Cheeky Dog etchings - not that Mum could see them but we read out their stories together which was fun.
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