Leicester Hospital said palliative care, but Andrew and I wanted a second opinion (not wanting to give up a fight). So we asked The Royal Orthopedic for there opinion and they basically agreed with Leicester...once again it felt like a slap in the face, how could we tell the children this or indeed anyone else close to us as a family.
After a few days and some tears later, I decided to try and ask Prof Judson at the Royal Marsden for his opinion; thankfully my Oncologist supported me in this decision and it was only a matter of weeks before we were seeing the man himself in London. Now this man has an amazing brain...you can almost see the cogs going round as he contemplates the decision making process. But he never lets you feel uninformed and is very happy to answer questions, he did say that I was a complex case and that there was no clear right / wrong course of treatment to take. Eventually after some discussion it was decided that I should have Dox / Ifos combination chemo to try and double `zap` these gremlins. With the long term goal being to try and shrink both tumours in order to offer the best option of having surgery to move either / or both.
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