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Hi troups,

firstly thank you all for sharing and for your courage a good example for me and inspiring when things are not going well. Updating you:

The good news:

My lungs mets are stable and slightly reduced and no news mets. I have 9 under 1.2mm now but quite a few around the 1cm mark.

my original lymph node is still 1 cm now and has been basically the same size over the past 6 months which is good (I had cryo on it last july 2010)

I am still on tyk/ herc and now low dose capci (too much diarreah otherwise)

I had 2 chemoembolisation (Frankfurt) in the lungs in the last two months which has stabilised or slightly reduced the tumours. I may do laser treatments like I did for my liver ect.. and will keep you posted.

I am soooo releived to finally have had a good scan and hopefully it is a turning point in what seemed to have been a relentless progression..despite doing everything I could, hopefully more good news will follow.

Bad news the diarreah has led to an extremely painful and debilitating anal fissure, I am writing this from the bath (warm water relax the muscle that goes into spasm ) I have sometimes in great pain for hours after defecation. This pain (added to bad scans for a year) has been very very hard to cope with and wiltered my will but I am grateful for the friends that came around and have supported me I do not know what I would have done without them sometimes joining me in the bathroom (so I could stay in warm water) for a chat!

Also this board and stories help, so I hope this one help too