Florence's bit

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to add a couple of things to Dave's blog yesterday. It was really fab news -the doctor said that the pain in his chest that Dave had been getting is nothing to worry about it - in fact it turns out it is a 'spasm' which occurs because the oesophagus had not been working properly for a while and now is and is complaining due to lack of exercise - so is in fact good news! The tiredness is because the silly plonker insists on playing football with the kids when he should be sitting quietly with a book! (duh...!)

There was absolutely no evidence of any spread and the radiotherapy (which he said they rarely offered) is going to be given in a very powerful dose which they hope will kill much of the cancer cells (although as Dave said can't kill it completely). The fact that the tumour has responded so well and that they are able to consolidate that by attacking it even more potently is amazing - 'very unusual' as the doctor put it so we can truly see God's hand in this and will buy us so much more precious time even though it will be a pretty rough few weeks for Dave having both chemo and radiotherapy at the same time....but its still fanatastic to be given the opportunity to have the treatment.

I must confess that for the first time since we had the news I woke up this morning and felt that much of the darkness that I have been walking with for the past few months had been lifted and I could so clearly see God's grace and mercy in those results - so thankyou so much for all your gracious thoughts and prayers - I know we've still got a long way to go but for now the sense of relief is just wonderful!

thanks again guys for all the support you give to us and especially to my incredible hubbie - you're all such a blessing to us!

Teresa (aka Florence)xxx