One year on - Kicking cancer

Those of you who visit here loyally and regularly will recall perhaps this post a while back documenting the ongoing recovery of 'TP' from a rarely survivable form of cancer.

Well, it's been a year since he underwent very major surgery to begin the process of attempting to eradicate those particularly nasty little cells from where they had decided to set up home!

It's been a year of very significant ups and downs, of hospital visits so numerable that one almost requires a P.A. to keep a track of them all to ensure attendance at the appropriate time, of so many meds we have to have charts to keep track, of disruption and sleepless nights...and of course my being royally dumped in the middle of it all just to add to everyone's stresses and upset (nice timing!) but thus far it has all paid off pretty impressively. There's still a way to go, TP has to undergo one more small surgery next week and the original surgery has quite some impact on lifestyle but much has been achieved in the year since it all began.

What prompted this post? Well, we attended The Churchill Hospital in Oxford (don't mention the parking issues!)on Friday for the first of the 'one year' checks and TP passed with flying colours, there are more to come of course, the most scary of which is the one year scan in a month or two, but so far so good.

We all know of course that those in the know in professional oncology circles never make promises, never talk of cure and hate to offer prognoses but it's looking good to date and the odds have already been beaten by a mile.

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