We returned home safely from our holiday on Tuesday. Everything went fine, Nadine coped with all situations quite well and we were in good hope for the results of a brain scan that was done just before we left. Also, everybody who met Nadine frequently during the last months told us that she has improved considerably. But the results given by the doctor today weren’t that good. They aren’t really bad neither, but there are still nine metastases in Nadine’s head. Everybody involved had hoped that there would be none any more.

It still remains unclear what that means exactly. The pictures from April still need to be compared to those from December which were taken before radiation therapy. And there will be another scan at the beginning of June. As long as these three scans aren’t compared, it isn’t possible to state growth, reduction or a stable state. I expected to get a comparison of December and April today, but this wasn’t the case. So we have to wait further in the same uncertain mood we’ve been living with for quite some time now.