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Last
Thursday afternoon, Bernice and I went to Cheltenham hospital
with Matt to find out the result of his full body PET scan.
Although we were confident that everything would be fine,
there were still some back of the mind doubts. Matt's consultant,
Dr. Sean Elyan met us in a small room in the radiotherapy
department. As soon as I found out we had to go there, a
feeling of dread overcame me. However, it turned out that
this was just because that was where Dr. Elyan happened
to be working that day.
The
result of the scan showed that after two operations and
eight months of chemotherapy, Matt has no active cancer
remaining. Although Matt himself just took it in his stride
as usual, the relief to the rest of us was just unreal.
After
telling us the result, Dr. Elyan asked Matt, 'Are you going
out to celebrate tonight?'
'Dunno - might do,' he replied, indifferently.
Matt
will have continue to see the specialist every three months
for the next two years for a check-up and every year for
the rest of his life but the cancer is in remission. If
it stays that way for the next five years, chances are it
will not come back.
We
did celebrate! As a family, with a meal at the Prince of
Wales on Saturday evening. And very nice it was too! Eleven
months ago, deep down we all took in the possibility that
we might lose Matt. Now we have him back and that's just
unbelievable to all of us!
The
photo below shows my whole family, happy together in one
place. This is a most unusual occurrence these days as we
all grow older. Left to right in the picture are Matt, myself,
Bernice, Sarah, Chris' girlfriend - Ali, Chris and Tina.
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