Friday 5th October 2012

Wow - I didn't realise how slack I have been in putting up a post. Well as the saying goes - no news is good news! Which is exactly the case for the Elton's at the moment. Luke is going along well, coping with chemo with the odd day of feeling crappy, going to uni and keeping up with all the assignments that seem to be rolling in and going to work 3 days a week at DAFF. He's still in remission and just taking chemo to keep him that way. I'm not sure of his final finish date for treatment - however it will be somewhere between Feb - Jun 2013. Officially if we follow the protocol document, he needs to have maintenance chemo for 3 years from the first interim maintenance period (which I calculate the end date as being 31 May 2013). However the way his 3 monthly cycles are set up at the moment, he has one ending 5 May 2013. So I need to check with the specialist whether this will be okay or whether he has to have one more cycle after that? Murray is doing well - went to the specialist again a few weeks ago and all is good. He's had no other episodes, so I think the blood pressure tablets must be helping to control things (not that he has high blood pressure!). He still isn't driving yet as the specialist said to wait for the 6 month all clear. So at the end of this month he should be good to go. Yay...no more late night runs for me picking Amy up from work on a Friday night! Murray and I went to South Australia for a weeks holiday in September. I had tried to plan it for December when the kids would have been free of uni and college, however they weren't that interested in coming and told us to go alone. So we had a nice time visiting Adelaide, the Barossa Valley, Adelaide Hills, Kangaroo Island and McLaren Vale. The kids seemed to survive okay and there didn't seem to have been any wild parties as they both had their heads down doing assignments. Amy has had a rough trot with her health in the last few months. She started with a cold then we found out she had a true flu. That knocked her around for a quite a few weeks and then she needed all 4 of her wisdom teeth out. She survived that, however 2 weeks after the operation she got an infection. She got given more antibiotics that seemed to work but then once again 2 weeks later she had another infection. We could feel a lump in her gum so the dental surgeon agreed to re operate. So the poor thing had to go under anaesthetic again. This time it all worked. So touch wood...she seems to be okay at present. So that's all our news for now....I'll try to remember to update the blog in a few months, however as I said everyone is doing well at the moment so not much to report.