First of all I must apologise for no entry for a couple of weeks. I had my fifth chest x ray last Thursday and was due to see my GP to get results today(Friday). I thought I would wait until I has seen her so that I could give you an up to date report.

The good news is that the second lot of blood tests showed that the infection had cleared. Apparently though in the earlier tests some evidence of anaemia was found. The GP did apologise for not mentioning this before. It might have explained why I had been feeling a little tired during the day. Anyway that's behind me.

The chest x rays(there were two taken one from the front and one from the side) showed that there was still some infection in the left lung caused apparently by some sticking in the diaphragm. She has given me some more anti biotics in the hope that they will clear the infection.

We then went on to discuss whether there was a more fundamental problem. She asked me whether I was more worried that the cancer might be back or whether I was concerned that I might have another attack of violent coughing. I tend towards the latter view. I am not losing weight and I am eating much better than say 3 months ago. As I have said here though I don't believe that amount of coughing will do me any good. There is also the fact that my voice has still not returned to normal. I am being referred to the chest clinic at the Hospital. This may take a few weeks but if they can suggest anything that would help it will be worth the wait. As far as the cancer side of things is concerned, I am still being seen every 3 months by the Oncologist.

Last weekend was a special birthday for Ev. We all went up to Christopher and Gillian's to celebrate the occasion. It would be remiss of me not to thank both Christopher and Andrea in assembling some friends from both the North East and Shropshire for a very pleasant evening. Ev was surrounded by all five Grandchildren.

Later today I am going to a meeting of the Patient's support group, which is always worth supporting.

More hopefully next week.