2nd June

travelled down to the appointment. I was worrying about the motorways so made hubby leave far to early - but it was a good job!We eventually found the place, but trying to find a carpark was another thing. Building work means that car par signs are no longer correct - apparently if there is a builder about, then all signs are telling you porkie pies.

The doctor we saw was very good, explained everything and suggested that Hubby have a single dose of chemo as surgery alone only gave a 80% chance of a cure, but chemo would push this up to 98%. We were given a load of information, booklets etc which is only going to make my life worse as hubby read the side effects ( you know those ones that don't affect anyone until they read the information sheet and all of a sudden you think you have every symptom under the sun) and has already decided that he will be too tired to wash the dishes.

He has to have a kidney function test that will last all day which they can do at the local hospital, but everything else we have to travel to this centre for - treatment, monitoring for the next 5 years - better buy myself a lot of good books - traffic jams and sitting in uncomfortable chairs is all I can think about for the future now; of and losing my temper at the man flu x 2000