Cannot believe it's the 8th of October already, I am making really good progress which seems to have been acknowledged by everyone. It seems amazing that when I came home from hospital I could hardly manage ½hour out of bed and now I am preparing to go back to work - albeit only halftime.

I had an MRI scan last week and get the results from that tomorrow afternoon at the Marsden. The hope is that it will show nothing at all as the sugeon said he removed all of UG, I hope that it the case. The schedule after that is that I go into the Marsden (possibly overnight) on 23rd October to have a portacath fitted which is a small implant that goes under the skin in my chest and tunnels under the skin up to a central vein in my neck and this is what they will use to take blood out and put the chemo and antibodies in because, as a doctor said last week 'I have crap veins'. It has to be done under general but should only take about 45 mins so it's small fry in comparison to the 5 hours of the last operation! I have seen and spoken to someone who has one and it is barely noticable under the skin, but even if it is, it's not for long - the next, no LAST, chemo treatment is another 12 weeks which means that I will take my last tablet on January 10th - woo hoo!!!

When that is finished, I have the portacath removed and then it's back to St Helier to have the colostomy reversed. Providing all goes smoothly I should be feeling ok over Christmas; have my last big chemo on 27th Dec (which means it's this year not next year - a big psychological thing for me) and clear of everything and back to something resembling normality by Easter. After that it will be some big fat holiday!

Will try to do another posting tomorrow after the scan results. xx