Hi everyone
A rather delayed update – I have finally finished chemo and together with surgery it seems to have (mostly) worked, so fingers crossed the cancer won’t return any time soon. Meantime, I’ve picked up a new autoimmune condition (Correlation or causation? No one is saying!) but it has resulted in extreme muscle weakness in my shoulders, neck and arms (and groin), leaving me pretty helpless for a while. Not great, but the doctors from rheumatology have been amazing, travelling from another hospital to see me at the cancer wing of St James’s, and I am now looking at treatment for that condition that should keep it under control and even possibly in remission. All in all I’ve had such incredible service from our wonderful medical teams and I couldn’t be more grateful to them.
So – I’m going to stop blogging about my health for a bit now – and return to other things – mainly linguistics here, though I did want to thank everyone who has supported me, through little messages (how you doing?), cups of coffee (and cake!), flowers, your personal challenges (thanks – it really helped) and other ways in which people have kept the hope alive. You’re all wonderful.
Keep those challenges going (if you want) and I will return to the ones I’ve not managed to do recently (the trumpet has been a particular issue with the new condition!) I am hoping to do lots of physio and fitness training (slowly!) in the next few months and return to running and dancing in due course.
Lesley Jeffries 