On the evening of Monday, June 14th Richard took his last chemo pill of the perscribed treatment plan laid out back in September 2010. What an amazing feeling to have made it, all things considered!
It's been almost five weeks since then and he is doing really well. We drove out to our house in Sardinia on July 6th spending a night near Dijon and a night on the ferry from Genoa to make it an easy trip. After a lovely week there I have returned to Whithurst to attend to business and left him with masses of companions to continue enjoying the sun and warmth, the quiet of the place, long naps, wonderful fresh food, swimming in the warm pool and sea, seeing friends and sleeping long and well at night without a sleeping pill. His eating is good and he is slowly putting on a bit of weight. He's up to 40 lengths a day in the pool! Of course he's getting tan and his hair is coming back in as well so the general look is one of renewed health and vigour.
Richard will return to the UK in a couple of weeks to take care of business and go to his follow up MRI scan on the 16th of August to see the state of everything post-operation and chemo. A fairly nervous making appointment, but we are trying to just focus on all the good results he's experiencing right now and so are making plans for 2012 which will include going to some warm place on the sea for an extended period to avoid the worst of the English winter. Doctors advice!
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