more treatment

its may now and Bro and i are off to Christies for another batch of chemotherapy. its not nice he goes in all upbeat and having fun like we always do, finding anything there is to have a laugh about and after the tereatment he comes out all shivering no feeling in his hands and having to cover his face up to the slight breeze outside..They can never get one of his veins with the needle and sometimes it takes 5 or 6 goes to get it..they put heated packs on and try all sorts of things...not a very good start to the day...bro is a private patient through his work insurance so its quite nicwe having breakfast and dinner through his treatment, the nurses are wonderful but i hate seeing him going through all this pain. He iupdates his status on facebook throughout his treatment, its amazing how many friends he has, just shows what a good guy he is. he has hundreds of well wishers on his page when he is having his treatment.......i just try to make him laugh with my chemo updates......CHEMO CHARLIE UPDATE

Well Chemo Charlie is back with us for a few more episodes (much to bros annoyance) and on Monday we are off to see his consultant Mr Mustapha Lukatfatti and his Russian surgeon Yura Pudding.
We spoke to mr Lukatfattis Chinese secretary (Chin tu fat) yesterday and she did express that there was nothing to worry about and the meeting was to discuss the present size of the tumour.
As always I like to go to these meetings well prepared for three reasons.
1 so I understand fully what the surgeon is talking about.
2 so I can prepare an action plan for the next few weeks
3. Because bro is a thick fooker.
Anyway upon reading up on the subject I have realised a few things that I was ignorant off. There are 200 types of tumours.. There are 7500 parts of the body that can be affected. There are 325,000 people diagnosed each year with a tumour. Im not that good mathematically but with the help of my trusty calculator I make that 487,500,000,000 different prognosis. Now maybe I am missing something but why are there only 4 sizes of  tumour….the size of a pea…..the size of a golf ball….the size of a tennis ball and the size of a grapefruit..??   How does one size progress to the other ?  What happened to gob stopper  sized tumour and   Terrys chocolate orange sized tumour?  Furthermore why didn’t the medical experts stick with either the fruit and vegetable  theme and have  pea ..tomato …orange. . grapefruit,  or with the sports theme and have marble, golf ball, tennis ball, football. Why confuse things ??
Another question,  it is clearly obvious what size a golf and tennis ball are but what size is a pea….is it a garden pea which isn’t worth bothering about,  or is it a great big marrowfat pea who has delusions  of grandeur and thinks hes a grapefruit which could be the size of a  pink grapefruit about 10 cm or the daddy of all grapefruit’s the Pomelo, a massive 15 cms.  Now if I was in a bed and the chap next door had a pea sized tumour and I had a grapefruit sized tumour I would be crapping myself…but if he had a 10mm diameter tumour and I had a 10cm diameter tumour, I would think things are not that bad. I think the medical profession should approach the size of the tumour in a simple measured way ie with the metric system of millimetres or the imperial good old fashioned system of feet and inches….
Anyhow we will know  on Monday when we go…..bros a bit thick so when they give us the size in metric I will have to explain to him that its about the size of a grape!!!!
See you soon......