Update from Ron Smith
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Ron,
Thinking good thoughts for you. Hope that ct shows everything and more we want…no growth, shrinkage and all sorts of good things.Kris
Hi Sue
I will be having my third treatment tomorrow. It hasn’t been too bad but I find that Wednesday I feel really rotten all day. It’s a bit like having the flu at the same time as having a really bad hangover (with none of the enjoyment!). Thursday, I’m feeling a bit better and am pretty well back to normal by Saturday. Just in time for blood tests on Monday and the next round of chemo on Tuesday.
I will be having a CT scan on Wednesday but this is the first since April. So this one, although it is well into the treatment, will be the base line.
Ron —-Wow the F-111 site was remarkable. I actually was in involved with the recovery operations on the RAF Lakenheath ones. I transported the pilot and navigator to debrief in 83 crash in the North Sea. I attended the memorial service of the wives, of the one that crashed in the cullin mountains of Scotland. It was so sad, One of the pilots wife was 8 months pregnant with their first child. Thanks for the site link. I better stay on subject now. but will certainly e-mail you direct if I remember any more.
Bless Ya!
JeffHi Ron,
How is your treatment with Gemcitabine going? My husband Ray bad two month’s treatment of this at Leeds and the only side effect he had was that two days after the treatment he felt vey tired and this lasted about 48hrs. No hair loss or nausea, but it did hit his platelets badly and he had to stop treatment. But for the first time in two years the 3 monthly scan showed no growth of his tumours, so it is a pity he had to stop short of the full treatment.
Hope this works for you.
Sue.Jeff
This site gives details of a number of F111, by reference to their tail numbers. A bit strange but probably interesting if you recognise any of them.
http://www.f-111.net/t_no_F.htmPauline
Thanks for your good wishes. If this chemo doesn’t work and there is nothing else available, then Professor Evans has indicated that he will get me into new trials. I believe he is on the Boards of various trials so he should be well placed. But I will keep a note of BIBW 2992.Thanks again
RonRon , Yep thats the one. The U.S. Was conducting low level radar training and blew out an engine and had to make emergency landing their. If I remember right, we had one F-111 swing wing fighter jet fly right in to the side of one of your mountains. Can’t remember, I think in the 80’S.
Later,
JeffRon,
I hope your gemcitabine treatment goes well. My husband, Anthony, had it combined with cisplatin and he tolerated it all pretty well – for 6 months in all. You mentioned that a trial might be the next step. I don’t know how you would feel about travelling to London for treatment, or, indeed if this trial is also under way in Scotland, but there is a promising trial of a drug called BIBW 2992 at Guy’s Hospital led by Dr Spicer. My husband, Anthony, was offered it but, unfortunately his disease progressed too far before he was able to start it. Just something for you to be aware of and to maybe ask about.
Good luck with the chemo,
PaulineJeff
I don’t want to bore you but I was looking at the Prestwick site and thought this reference to the Royal Navy Air Station quite interesting. Would this have been the one you visited? I see they had at least one quite well known visitor.“Prestwick is also home to a Royal Navy Air Station, more popularly known as HMS Gannet, where Sea King search and rescue helicopters are stationed. Although the US Air Force no longer has a base at the airport, Prestwick continues to handle a large number of US military flights. It was at this airport that Elvis Presley set foot in the UK for the only time, when his US Army transport aircraft stopped for refuelling en route from Germany in 1960.”.
Jeff
Don’t knock it till you try it. It’s a pity with you being stationed at RAF bases that you never managed to attend a Burns Supper, then you would know how good it can taste, especially when washed down with a dram. I am impressed that you knew what “uisge-beatha” means. You’re ovbiously not a lost cause! LOL!!!Hey ! Thanks Ron, Brings back many memories. RAF Prestwick was the one.
RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk is where I first got stationed. It is where I got married as well. Had my Reception at RAF Woodbridge. Bentwaters now a museum wow! That tells my age. So don’t keep me hanging — What is haggis and neeps? or should I look it up? Ha!
Thanks Ron for the ride through memory lane,
Jeff
P.S. Pig Intestines uch! My wife just told me.It’s uncanny Kris, there’s something else we have in common. But you surprise me as I thought weegies’ sauce of choice was tomato. Must be a case of nurture rather than nature.
Jeff
To be truthful, I think most of the sightings are made after close contact with “uisge-beatha”! Since I no longer follow that course I am unlikely to catch sight of Nessie. By the way, it is a dead give-away to all that you are a tourist if you call Loch Ness a Lock or a Lake. The c and h are softly sounded together from the back of the throat and not given a hard sound as in lock.I don’t know which RAF base it would be but, remember, Scotland is a small country so everywhere is close to Loch Ness or anywhere else. This link should give you a list of bases in Scotland, so, if you are really bored, you might be able to find the right one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RAF_stations#Scotland_.28current.29
Had they given you haggis and neeps then you would really have had a story to tell.
Ron
Hi Ron and Kris,
Kris, Are you a natural red head? I don’t remember if we ever found out the truth? My wife is from England and loves her brown sauce. I still prefer ketchup on every thing. I was in Scotland once when stationed at RAF Lakenheath. One of our F-111’s blew an engine and I have to take one up to a RAF Station somewhere near the Lock Ness Monster lake. Gosh I can’t remember the name, but they put us up and gave us beans and bangers with brown sauce. Ron have you ever seen the Lock Ness Monster? I’m bored today . Just wanted to post something.
Cheerio for Now,
Jeff
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