Rachel wrote...
"Wednesday's are always one of the best days of the week as the hospital runs "lunch bunch" upstairs, where all of the patients, families, staff and volunteers gather together for a free lunch! We enjoyed this and made some new friends!
We met with Dr Danny who is the professor overseeing Josh's case and he went through the scans with us and the treatment plan. It appears that the tumour is much larger and more aggressive than it was originally thought, meaning that he will need just over 6 weeks of treatment.
Afterwards Josh had his second treatment, which was a bit shorter than the first one (about an hour). The first treatment made Josh quite unwell over night, we are told this is a normal reaction to the radiation and we are hoping it won't happen again tonight."
Josh pretending to be a statue as he's positioned for his treatment
On the "amazing flying bed" - final x-rays to ensure proton laser is in exactly the right place
Treatment about to start - strapped in to keep completely still for an hour
Please keep praying for Josh, Rachel and Lonnie as the treatment continues.
Back in Taunton Wellsprings Chapel ran a community Jubilee Fun Day last Sunday. It was excellent - hundreds of people came to the open-air service and all the games, puppet shows, choirs, African drummers, craft activities, face painting etc afterwards, and I got to do 2 things I've never done before...
carve a pig (for the hog roast)
carry the olympic torch
Oh, actually there were three new experiences - I managed to resist eating any of the crackling from the pig (and the brilliant Chinese Chicken curry, rice and prawn crackers that one of our members made - she owns a Chinese take-away in town...the traditional blackened burgers and sausages were slightly less hard to resist!!!)
Which means that at my weigh-in today the result was...
14 stones 2 pounds
A loss of 2 pounds this week, and a total loss so far of 1 stone 2 pounds
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