January 4, 2012

  • Chrissie, she is in Valencia tonight with Beccie who has had her first chemo today, I wasn't allowed in the unit and Chrissie isn't alowed out, so I came home. The rest of the week we have been there, we stayed in a hotel and Chrisse was with her all day. It's going to be a long haul to cure it, but it is curable and hasn't spread, so horrible as it is now she will recover.

    We have to take her to Valencia once a week for the next three months for chemo, then radiation. she has to be in a sterile inviroment at first, even here, so we are in quarantine, no going anywhere. She has had symtoms for a while, but because the bloods were all clear (because it hasn't spread) they were barking up the wrong tree. The her face swelled up, her veins were protruding everywhere and it ended as an emergeny on the 20th December.

    She was admitted to a private hospital in Denia because they thought it was her thyroid, but in the night she had severe chest pains and they took her for a scan because they feared it was her heart. They discovered an 8CM (grapefruit) in her chest pressing on her heart lungs and spine, they thought it was a cyst, but she was sent to Alicante for a biopsy last Tuesday which confirmed the cancer and we found that out Wednesday. They can't operate, but can cure her with the horrible drugs.

    Friday morning they went to the Denia hospital which is Spanish NHS, She was rushed to Valencia by ambulance on Friday because she has a blood clot in a vein and it was stopping her blood flow, they are treating this with a daily injection which she will need for six months until she can have any sort of operation. They say that as soon as the chemo kicks in it will kill the tumor and it will imeadiatly shrink and relieve all her symptoms. Then it's just a long haul to recovery. Please feel free to forward this to the other members, we'll keep you up to date.

    My thoughts are that it's just not fair, she just found a really nice guy and they just got engaged, so for weeks Chrissie had been really excited about that, then this happened.......