I got word today that I have been accepted for the SIRT Spheres trial being conducted out of Auckland University and the Auckland hospital.
I will have a smaller dose of chemo than usual this Friday and for the next 2 doses following the insertion of the spheres. I understand that the radio-active spheres must carry quite a kick and they don’t want to knock me down completely! Very comforting.
Bronwen and I will travel to Auckland on Tuesday 9th Dec for the procedure on Wednesday. There is also another artery in the liver they want to emobolise (there’s my favourite word again – usually has such a negative association!)
I will be in isolation for 24 hours being highly radio-active. I will then be released and we will stay with one of my brothers in Auckland for 7 days during which time Bronwen is not allowed to sleep in the same bed; I am not allowed to be in crowded places; children and pregnant women cannot come near me, and other adults must come no closer than 2 meters and not stay long. If I lie on the grass I am told it will go brown!
Hope it works!!!
Lionel Brown
4 December, 2008 at 7:29 am
Pleased to hear that you have been accepted for the radioactive trial. will be continuing to pray. Sounds a bit like New Testament leprosy to me!
God bless
James
4 December, 2008 at 7:37 am
Be careful. All that radioactivity might give you cancer.
James
4 December, 2008 at 8:05 am
It looks like the change of government came just in time for you. Who knows if Helen Clark would have permitted a nuclear-powered person to stay in the country.
Greg Bain
4 December, 2008 at 8:43 am
Where do I send the small hand bell to?
(to be rung slowly while saying ‘unclean, unclean’ to anyone within hearing distance)
As I too was diagnosed with a bowel cancer earlier this year just in time to have it dealt with surgically, I am very thankful for God’s grace in providing you with this remarkable radioactive treatment.
More to the point, I continue to pray that He continues to grow your faith and trust, by expanding the ‘peace that passes all understanding’ in the middle of a challenging part of your walk with Him.