[Magdalen] Continuing prayers for Keith and for me

[Sally Davies]

Oh dear...this week has been a roller coaster, and now it's heading down
faster than I can handle.

It seems that the radiologist who did Keith's biopsy on Monday "definitely
missed" which leaves us back at Square One. I met his physician this
morning on the ward and he pulled me aside to tell me this...which was the
end of my working day. I can't handle seeing another hospital patient even
if he or she is improving!!

My sister shares this opinion and already asked for more tests, another
blood test for something or others, and a 24 hour urine collection for
serotonin - since if these are tumours they're probably
carcinoid/neuro-endocrine tumours. So he's in the middle of that and will
go back for the bloods later on.

If the test is positive we more or less have the diagnosis, at least six
malignant growths in his liver and who knows where else. If negative, it's
still not good because another biopsy will have to be done. The lesion they
went for is large and close to the surface, but it's tricky - you have to
hold your breath and keep still because our livers are attached to our
diaphragms and move along with the breathing.

Keith is going to Cape Town next week so the plan, if it can be arranged,
is for him to see a specialist there instead of going around the loop again
in this provincial neck of the woods.

I'm officially a nervous wreck!! Don't even want to go back to church after
last week's reading - Elisha's sorry and "Don't speak of it". I wish we
didn't have to speak of it, but we must.

Thank you for your prayers, they mean a great deal to me.