[CANCER] Scan Results Are Back .. and the tumours have shrunk.

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I posted on Friday that I was expecting scan results next Wednesday (28th), but that my nurses yesterday (who can't interpret/return the results) could see that they were on the system, so emailed my oncologist to ask if I could have the results any earlier. I missed two 'no caller ID' calls last night, and another this morning, but managed to feel my phone going off when out on my walk (4km+ today, I started…
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[CANCER] Week 2 of Treatment … Resting AND Seeking to be #BusyLivingWithMets

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Another week has passed since I last blogged about treatment - and I guess this is going to start getting repetitive, but at the moment, things are still changing... if more slowly! Friday/Saturday Gentle days - Friday/Saturday felt like all the energy had leached out of my body (that may be the sudden drop off from steroids) - with gentle walks and chats with friends (and my Power of Attorney paperwork finally turned up). Sunday…
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[CANCER] Where are we at? More appointments, more treatment, more uncertainty…

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The last few weeks have been hard work, to say the least ... once again gone from working on a big bid, getting on with some writing (including a piece on using blogging to manage cancer, and wondering what might write about as treatment becomes more 'routine' - ha ha ha - I wish for routine!) to the uncertain jungle of changing diagnosis, new tumours, new treatments and fear as cancer punches me in the…
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[CANCER] #LivingWith #MetastaticCancer

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Today I returned for further treatment at the hospital, the sixth infusion, and the first since my recent scan was NEAD. Thankfully no more docetaxol for now, but ongoing Herceptin and Perjeta infusions (until they stop working - I think around 5 years is most I've seen so far). I was also supposed to start Denosumab (bone strengthening) injections today too, but I need to have a filling done in my wisdom tooth, and that…
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