Health Update

This month has been a really tough start. Let me tell you what's been happening.

On the 1st March I had a CT scan on my lungs.

2nd March I had a meeting with my consultant who along with the CT scan wanted an up to date MRI of my brain and spine. The quickest way to facilitate this was to admit me. Monday and Tuesday I spent overnight in ward A5, with patients that are in the majority elderly and suffering from severe strokes who need round the clock care. You don't get to sleep on this ward. There is always a medical emergency.

Wednesday I decided to discharge myself at 5pm in the afternoon, the sun was shining and I wanted to play golf. I still hadn't had the MRI. I had packed my rucksack with all my belongings and waiting for the staff nurse to release my medication when the Doctor on duty stopped me from discharging myself. His words were "Will, we've kept you here because the lung nodules which we had expected to disappear after your 5 rounds of Chemotherapy are still there, not only are they still there but they have grown. I am pushing hard for the MRI to get done tonight please stay, I will be round tomorrow morning at 10am to discuss the results with you, then you can go home Thursday. Please just one more night"

Scan on my brain took an hour, my spine was quicker at only 30 minutes. It took place later that night.

Thursday morning came and went, lunchtime I once again packed my rucksack and spent time with my parents. The consultants had messaged me to say they would see me at 6pm. Do not go home.

It was 6:30pm Thursday when I was taken to a quiet room with a Neurosurgeon and Consultant, my parents sat either side of me........They told me me what I already knew, the lungs are naughty. Then came the news, "Will the Chemo isn't working, your disease in the brain has progressed. we won't be doing a 6th cycle of chemo. We have to find out what's driving this disease. You are booked in for a lung biopsy on Tuesday you will be sedated this time. You can't go home tonight, sorry I know you don't sleep on the ward, but you need to see two specialists tomorrow to discuss the lung biopsy. Please stay tonight."

All I could think of was that on Monday we were supposed to be flying to Tenerife as a celebration of nearing the end of Chemo and my disease going into remission. I was told I was to ill to fly, that if something happened in Tenerife they would be unable to help me.

I spent another night on ward A5.

Thankfully they have let me go home for the weekend on the promise that I will be back Monday to get ready for surgery....... Yeah March, not gonna lie, it isn't ideal.