Love is all you need.......and a wee bit of chemo, surgery and radiation!

We have now told most of our friends and family the news.  This has by far been the hardest part of this whole crappy thing so far.  If I didn't speak to you personally, please don't feel it is because you are not important to me because each and every single person in my life is more important than ever to me right now, it is you all that are going to get me through this with a smile still on my face ( no pressure there then :-)).  It's just that I have had time to come to term with this and now every time I tell someone it's like going back to that moment I was told all over again.

It looks like I might not start chemo until next week.  I have a ridiculous amount of appointments to get through this week first - honestly, I really don't have time for all this in my life, doesn't cancer know how busy I am?!  So, I have to have an echocardiogram because chemo can damage your heart muscle cells....I did quiz the oncologist to try to find out exactly how this happens and why specifically the heart muscle is effected and not other muscle (told you I'd be over enthusiastic with the science), but, alas, he was a bit vague and waffally in his response (ie he doesn't know).  Any of my medical friends, please feel free to enlighten me :-). Then I have te dentist on Tuesday because chemo can play havoc with your mouth and lead to infections etc (nice) so I have to make sure my teeth are in tip top condition before I start.  I tell you, it's amazing how you can get an appointment at the drop of a hat when you tell them you have cancer, usually it's at least 6 months ahead! Then I have an appointment Wed with the oncologist, I am assuming to talk through the how, what, when of chemo, but I don't really know because they like to keep you guessing it seems!  Then Thursday I have a flu vaccine because chemo kills your white blood cells so you are more prone to catching infections (winter is not the best time of year to have chemo!).  Then at some point this week I should be having a CT scan.

But, fingers crossed, after all that, I might actually be able to go to Plymouth this weekend to see our new boat for the first time :-). We were in the process of buying a boat when all of this happened and as it turned out we actually finalised payment for it the day after my biopsy.  We are now the very proud owners of a Fisher 30 called Black Pearl :-)))). Hopefully I will be ale to post some pictures after this weekend, I'm very excited.