St. Bart's Visit.

I saw Dr. Jeremy Steele at St. Bart's and he advised me to hang on for a couple of months more before having the IPM chemo. He feels the Mesothelioma is not growing too fast and as I have a good standard of life at the moment, chemo will make me feel awful and sick and my hair will fall out again, delaying it will also add those extra months on at the end.

He was not too concerned about the lymph nodes at the moment as he says they can enlarge for several reasons and where would the meso go to anyway? Hmm... not too sure about this argument as I have heard of it spreading to the brain and to bones, but we'll see. He did say that he would give me the chemo straight away if that was what I wanted.

It is a slight possibility that my mistletoe injections could cause the lymph nodes to swell.

I have decided to take his advice as he is the expert and meso is his specialist interest. He is chairman of the 'mesothelioma UK' charity.

I see Dr Jeremy Steele again in three weeks and he will scan me again in about seven weeks to see how much the meso has grown and a decision will be taken then.

We went to the Hop Farm Festival on Saturday and saw some great bands, Mumford and Sons, Seasick Steve, Ray Davies, Pete Doherty, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn,
The Magic Numbers, & Foy Vance.
The headline act was Bob Dylan, who was a bit disappointing. Still the weather was great, the company was great, and we all enjoyed ourselves.

I am so loving this amazing weather, long may it last.

Today's painting is of a colourful doorway found in Greece.