Today is Territory Day and Susan and I are preparing ourselves for the onset of fireworks and increased dog anxiety. Helen is well - feet improving although not perfect. She and I have been up together from 4am two nights this week - once as I heard her calling my name and when I went down to see her she said poignantly " oh I'm so lonely". That was sad but she cheered up quickly with company and we had a nice few hours together before I left for work. This morning was more positive overall as I just happened to find myself awake at 4 and when I checked on her so was she- although not lonely or distressed and actually able to have a bit of normal conversation with me. We had a bit of excitement when I caught an enormous cane toad that had been hiding under the cupboard in the atrium and Mum was very proud of me!
Tomorrow she will have another ct scan and Monday we see the oncologist and hopefully also get results of the blood tests. Tuesday she has a review with the pall care team and we have also recently seen the gp and have a plan to see the podiatrist, physio and audiologist soon. Just missing the dentist for the full hand!
She has been 2 weeks off the Iressa now and I must say I don't notice any improvement as a result - will be interested to see what the oncologist thinks about it as he had said previously that he thought if we stopped it she would be likely to deteriorate rapidly with re-activation of the lung lesion.
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