Wednesday 9 April

Well we had the tests yesterday and they went as well as they could. We had the same lovely lady, Marika doing most of them. Just before the first scan I was sitting next to Simon as he was lying strapped to the CT machine waiting for it to start. Suddenly for a few moments it all seemed a bit overwhelming, remembering last time we were here and how real it all became. It was a bit sad and scary and we realise how blessed we are that most of the time we are just tired, not scared and without hope. I don't know how people get through this without God.

In-between tests we were able to wander down Brunswick Street for pizza and ice-cream, and just sit around in the park, enjoying a beautiful sunny day.

Like last time we could see everything on the screens as the machine scanned his body. Like last time we saw things lit up like his tumor was, so we could either assume all of his organs are affected or remind ourselves that we can't understand the test! It's hard to recall exactly, but we think last time we could see an obvious difference between the leg with the tumor and the leg without and this time it didn't seem so obvious, so that could be good, but we don't really know. They weren't able to send a doctor out to talk about the results this time, but we weren't too bothered by that because last time she told us it didn't seem like a sarcoma and it was, so we are happy to wait to see Prof. Choong tomorrow morning at 10.30 for the results! So we are feeling a bit anxious about it all and I expect that will be worse just as we are about to see him. In the mean time we will just try to be distracted and praying as much as we can!