August 8th

Everyone here is talking about Super Saturday but yesterday was Tremendous Tuesday!!

We went to London to see the consultant & get the results of the CT scan I had on Friday and the great news is that the chemotherapy is working!! He said that the nodules on my lung are reducing and also that the tumour markers in my blood are starting to come down. It was such amazing news to get as we had no guarantees that the treatment would be successful but they have recently linked it to the type of cancer that I have and have seen increasingly positive results.

We believe it is due in no small part to the many people that have been praying for us and we are very grateful to all of you! The next plan is to continue the chemotherapy for another 3 cycles and then assess how it's progressing.

To top it all off, Dave somehow managed to get us last minute tickets to the athletics yesterday evening and we got to celebrate in style in the Olympic stadium! What a fantastic atmosphere....the swimming last week was good but this was incredible! We saw high jump, long jump, discus, mens 1500m final, 200m womens heats & got to support Dervla O'Rourke in the womens 100m hurdles! The best bit was when the German guy won the discus, ripped off his shirt, did a lap of honour and then jumped the 100m hurdle course! It was such a privilege to be there and experience the Olympics first hand and we are amazed at how it all worked out.

We even got to meet up with Mark & Lynne who were in at the athletics in the morning and we spent a lovely afternoon with them in the Olympic Park :)