Update 04/05/09

From Andi:

Hello everyone,

Tim went back into hospital when the doctors predicted and has been battling his neutropenic state for the last 10 days. He has been running very high temperatures, had massive, violent shakes ( have forgotten the medical term for those) head aches and sweats. He has now lost all of his hair, most of his eyelashes and beard. He has been very sick and unfortunately I came down with gastro, so was unable to be with him for most of the last 10 days. He is compeletly 'over it' at present and just wants to come home. Hopefully this will be this week. His counts are back on the way up, so he just has to keep his temp down and then he should be home. This has definately been the hardest period (so far) for us all, as we did anticipate ........ but we are almost through it. Tim will have to have some more chemotherapy as an inpatient and we believe one infusion is for 24 hours! Nice. Looks like the next few months are jammed packed with chemo and radio. Surely cancer doesn't stand a chance with all this........

Bye for now,
Love Andi

Further Update:

7/5/09 - After just over 3 weeks away from us, Tim is finally home.
He is weak, thin, pale and completely hairless, but nonetheless home
and happy to be out of hospital. He is feeling a little down at
present but I'm sure some good home cooking and love and laughs from
family and friends will see him back to his normal self in no time. (
He hasn't cracked one bad gag yet....this is serious!) Next step
forward is radiation to his brain, which doctors are hoping will start
within 2 weeks.