Scan Results :-)

This morning we were back at hospital - for the last time this year.

That in itself was cause for a celebration, and since we were a bit early, we had a coffee at the hospital cafe.  Then we headed up to hear the results of yesterdays scans.

We spent the waiting time trying to appear as if we didn't have a care in the world.  Alex was thankfully still absorbed in his WhirlyWords game on his iPhone and I gave up trying to concentrate on anything.  The TV was on with its volume barely audible, and they were showing a repeat of The Living Room show.  As soon as we saw the interviewee holding his radiotherapy mask while he was in his garage with his collection of motorbikes, including a BMW, we sat up and took notice!

Our efforts at virtually lip reading a TV interview were credible, but our interpretation was confused.  We decided we will need to do some further investigation ...

Dr. Steven Kao was ready not long after our waiting room excitement, and he always greets us with a ready smile and friendly greetings.  He had some very welcome good news for us.  The report of Alex's scans yesterday was 1.5 pages of "medicalese" and the translation was that Alex's cancer is stable, in all areas.  There are no new tumours since the last scan.  The new tumours that were picked up in the last scan have not grown very much at all and this all indicated that the chemotherapy treatment that Alex had been receiving was doing a very good job.

Alex will have a few weeks break, and chemotherapy will commence again on 14th January 2013.  We have 3 'Tiger in the Tank Days' booked in, and there will be another set of scans done towards the end of February or early March again.

This news was a good way to finish up our last visit to RPA for 2012.