Thank you for your good wishes Rebecca. I hope Kevin’s progress is hope for others who, like him, were not particularly young or fit at the time of SCT but who have got through the process well with virtually no side effects after just a month.
We are lucky in that we both work largely at home ( we changed our lives this way after Kevin had kidney cancer nearly 7 years ago)so he is really as normal in terms of working hours which is pretty much full time.
Currently the only evidence of what he has been through is the lack of hair ( although it seems to be growing a bit already) and the daily Zovirax, prophylactic for shingles.
Appetite is nearly back to normal although Kevin still doesn’t like sweet things too much, he says they taste too sweet,but that is good news for an overweight diabetic!
He is much more sanguine and forward thinking than me I think however – I know he won’t spend time worrying unnecessarily about recurrence but I know that I will to some extent. Perhaps though the one plus with this disease is because there are periods of remission and periods of active disease you really do focus on the good things in life when you are well. This has been the case since Kevin first had kidney cancer, you tend to get away from the things in life that are unimportant or stressful as much as you can and focus on the things that really matter – that must be a good thing!
