Zoe: Intensive scare

Sonny has been exhausted following the biopsy on Friday. He is now in a lot less pain from the nick in his lung but the disease itself has been causing a few problems with a drop in Sonny's blood pressure, fluid collecting in the wrong places and more reliance on oxygen. The good news is though he is back on chemotherapy so these symptoms should clear up when the chemo starts to work its cell killing magic. Our own emotional state was not helped by the fact that it was a weekend - the nurses are over stretched and numbers are often made up with agency staff. Although highly experienced our nurse yesterday normally works in intensive care and her intensive care of Sonny ended up totally freaking out Gavin and I into thinking that his situation was going downhill when in fact they had everything perfectly under control and were already one step ahead in terms of making him more comfortable. Or, her swift intervention was needed... we'll never know.

Zoe: Another Biopsy

Sonny had his biopsy today - the doctors said it went well. The anaesthetist warned us that there may be complications due to the location of his mass so we were incredibly relieved to hear him shouting that they were all 'poor' and 'stupid' when we arrived to collect him from recovery. They took two needle samples from his left side but were unable to take any from the new mass on his right as it was too deep so fingers crossed that they have enough good tissue to make a complete diagnosis this time around. Unfortunately, they nicked Sonny's lung during the procedure, hence the shouting, so he is now really uncomfortable and needing morphine but luckily they didn't do anything too serious although frankly I could have killed them plus they also chipped one of his perfect front teeth which seems really trivial in the grand scheme of things but hey give the lad a break eh.