There’s not much to report today except we now have some dates. Monday 17th is the PET scan in Taunton as described before. Wednesday morning I have an Echo cardiogram where they scan my heart with ultrasound and straight after that we meet my surgeon, Richard Berresford, for the first time. We’ve been told he’s reeeeeally nice and we suspect we’ll have an idea of the treatment plan after chatting to him. On Monday 24th July I have an endoscopic ultrasound and that will be the end of the investigation stage.
I had a lung function test on Friday which meant me blowing hard into a machine to record my breathing. It was far less stressful than the breathalyser I did 35 years ago. I couldn’t make the little tester register and the extremely unfriendly policemen kept threatening to arrest me for messing them about! Honestly! I was so nice to them too. After pleading to have another go, on my third attempt I had just enough puff and passed. Phew. This time I had a lovely Portuguese nurse who said I was great. Thats what I like to hear!! We’ve met quite a few European male and female nurses throughout this, reminding us how great it has been to be part of Europe.
Neil and I are enjoying life as always. We went to an Amnesty International bonfire party last night with many friends which was such good fun and ended up dancing the night away to 3 friends playing guitars. I’m absolutely fine, which will be the case right up until the treatment starts.
Ceri's Blog with Neil 
Hope you don’t have to pay for the repairs to the road tarmac with all that travelling to and fro the hospitals!!! [We were told we had to pay when the roots of our front garden tree started pushing up through the tarmac. I had hoped they would lop the tree but no!!! Ah well. Tree’s gone now!.] But how marvellous that the ball is rolling quickly for you and you’ll be ‘tested to destruction’ – oops bad choice of phrase!!!! Ha ha! Roll on that meeting with surgeon. Nice is nice but ‘excellent surgeon’ is what’s needed! I bet David will check him out. It’ll be great to know exactly what’s happening and when. You can get mentally and ‘householdly’ prepared. Fascinating at the same time – all that looking inside one – a view not normally seen. T xxxx
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Mr Richard Berresford is excellent. I’m a lucky lady.
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You’ll do extremely well with Mr Beresford in my experience, he was well liked by my patients and had very good results
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Mum – what test will “endoscopic ultrasound” do/show?
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I’ve already had an endoscopy which had a camera at the end. This ultrasound is the same procedure but instead of a comer it has a device which sends out sound waves and records their reflections back to the device will show in more detail the cells they are looking at. (I think – Des is the man to ask). Its amazing as they’ll have such a detail picture of me to help them sort out what treatment they’ll give me.
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