No not the show lol, well the time has come where one foot is in the grave and the other will follow based on my treatment success or failure.
Yes that’s right, the grade 2 is now grade 3 😦 and the worst part is in the last 9yrs I’ve done nothing to make the most of it. Plodded on as normal getting wrapped up in small things and taking life for granted, no point feeling sorry for myself, what is done is done and gone.
They have advised me it is early stages and only a few mm in size but it still don’t change how you feel hearing grade 3 or the word cancer. For years I’ve been able to shrug things but this time it seems different maybe it’s because I’ve been advised I could have as little as 2yrs without treatment or a good chance of 5yrs+ with treatment.
Treatment – a good word to use instead of radio and chemo and in my case treatment will be 6 weeks of both combined then the radio will stop, a 4 week break and then 6 months of chemo.
Providing everything is okay, treatment starts on the 24th of this month, as before like with the brain surgery I will be documenting everything so anyone who reads my site will see what I have gone through instead of lies, myths and misinformation.
I won’t lie, I am more nervous about the treatment more than having brain surgery again! I am guessing brain surgery is the last option if radio and chemo don’t stop it growing.
For those of you reading this who have been given more years to live, live it and don’t waste it! I’ve been stupid. Next post will be shortly after the 24th about the build up to the first session and what I went through.
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