<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/kindness-of-strangers.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2823" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/kindness-of-strangers-133x200.jpg" alt="kindness-of-strangers" width="133" height="200" /></a>It's been another tough week with three visits to the hospital and countless phone conversations with MacMillan nurses and GPs. Despite pills, potions and creams Jane hasn't been comfortable and her food intake remains very low due to lack of appetite.
One thing that consistently causes emotional instability is the unprovoked kindness of strangers from our distant neighbours delivering flowers, to the district nurse who we've never met ringing on a Saturday morning to check that Jane is OK. And of course the warmth, encouragement and genuine care Jane has received from her oncologist. Our lives are difficult at the moment but they would have been so much worse without the humanity all around us.

We had another blow this evening when the oncologist rang to say the CT scan indicates the tumour in the pancreas has grown therefore on Wednesday Jane will start a new course of chemo that she will need every week. Just when we thought we could expect some improvement we are knocked down again...