Follow-up to recent CT scans and career changes

I recently wrote here about plans I’d made and an update on what had been happening in our lives.

To give some further insight, on the career front:

I’m still on my phased return to work on a 5 days-on / 5 days-off pattern over a fortnightly rolling period while I’m still having Chemotherapy.
Mr Bunny is still job-hunting and has an interview lined up. We are trying to sort out Health Cover to keep us all insured under his current contract with his current employer. There are lots of options to compare!

Follow up consultation with my Medical Oncologist

The scan images annoyingly were not available due to my private hospital’s radiology department having IT issues. I was sent to another private hospital in May and had my scans there, so it’s a bit convoluted, as these things tend to be!
The up-shot is, I decided to try removing the Avastin / Bevacizumab from my next 5 rounds of fortnightly treatment. The reason for this is to see what effect if any this monoclonal antibody has. It’s the most expensive part of my regime, and was considered by my oncologist to be a top-up treatment.
If the FOLFIRI works well enough on its own, then I might decide to permanently remove the Avastin. I’ve had 13 rounds of treatment post-op so far, so it’s a bit of a gamble. But I would hope that by my next set of scans (mid-late August this year), I’ll have an idea of whether this was the right decision.

All my CT / MRI imaging scans to date have been sent to the Peritoneal Malignancy Specialist Hospital in Basingstoke. They will be discussing whether it will be feasible for me to undergo HIPEC surgery. This will be very invasive and a more intense operation than what I underwent in September last autumn. It literally scares me to think about it at present.
Due to the nature of the peritoneal spotting of the tumours, there are nodes in my left adrenal gland and liver that were affected. The left adrenal gland node has shrunk from 13mm-8mm from Sept 2024 to May 2025.
The HIPEC surgery would involve removal of a lot of my peritoneal lining, and possibly parts of organs such as my rectum, adrenal gland, liver, and maybe others. I will await the decision from Basingstoke, as to whether the surgery is feasible at this stage. I expect to hear in mid-late July potentially.
If surgery is not feasible, I will continue with Chemotherapy to continue shrinking the tumours and nodes. FOLFIRI will remain my fortnightly treatment, unless it stops showing a response. If that occurs, I can try FOLFOX.

The trip to Norfolk was fun. We went Thursday 22nd- Thursday 29th May to a nice holiday park near Wells-next-the-Sea. On the Friday we went on the Wells to Walsingham Light Railway, on their Diesel day. We had a lovely day wondering around the farm shop in the village and exploring the Shrine of Our lady at Walsingham.

Despite not being particularly religious the visit to the shrine was a nice reflection on what faith can mean to us. On our wandering around Walsingham village, we passed the Abbey and the streets were lined with blue and yellow bunting.
In the afternoon we braved it into the sea with wetsuits. It was a sunny day but rather chilly in the breeze, and the water was still cold.
Saturday we had a trip to Wells town for some shopping, a look along the coast, some amusements at the arcade and an ice cream before walking back to our holiday home.

The bank holiday Monday, we all went to Holkham Hall. Such a fancy place, I took loads of photos!

Tuesday I had a rest day, and in the evening we had dinner at the Wells Crab House Restaurant. That was a tasty meal, (I had the crab salad).
On the Wednesday we had a leisurely stroll around the RNLI lifeboat station and chatted to one of the volunteers. The Duke of Edinburgh rescue boat was very impressive! Lots of technology onboard. We had another trip to the beach in the afternoon to test our new wind-break and build some sand castles in the low tide. Little Miss Bunny was buried in the sand and had a mermaid tail crafted by Mr Bunny, while I took photos of them playing.

On the way home on the following Thursday, we stopped at the Langham Glass Blowing Centre and watched a demo, which was amazing. The craftwork was beautiful, and we saw a fox ornament, a cat, a clear beer tankard and a small mottled Halloween pumpkin ornament being blown. Of course, we had to buy some ornaments to bring home. I love glass, and I chose a fox, while Miss Bunny chose a cat.

This weekend, we’ve been to a local festival with some tribute bands and good food and cider!
For Fathering Sunday, we are having a cinema trip and a BBQ dinner.

Until next time, I’ll wrap this post up! Thanks for reading <3

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