Accepted for radio-active spheres trial
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!!!
The Years of the Sparrow excerpt
Oh my God, I feel so alone;The night is so cold, and I can’t see ahead
And my strength is almost gone.
Where is the joy I knew when My faith was fresh and young?
So dark! Are You there? How have I sinned? What’s wrong?
Rend the heavens and speak again.
— Light in my Long Night
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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
Be careful. All that radioactivity might give you cancer.
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.
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.