Norway

CEA was down to 40,6 last week, which was a very positive surprise as I've had to skip some of the medicine (Camptosar in particular) several times. The platelets count keep jumping up and down around 100 and is the main challenge. I'm taking blood tests the day before I'm going to the hospital for a refill. Yesterday a nurse from the cancer ward called me up and said the platelets count was 92 and I would possibly only get Erbitux and not the other cytostats. She asked me to take another blood test this morning when I arrived at the hospital. Surprise, the count had climbed to 101 so I got the full package after all.


As Marjo said in the previous post, we visited Norway during the last week of our holidays. This time we were a bit mean and told hardly anyone that we would come as we wanted to reduce the stress level as much as possible. Apologies to all those we didn't contact during our stay. This picture above is by the way from our previous visit autumn 2008.

We spent some days on my parents' farm and the kids drove a lot of tractor. My father had now two tractors which worked out pretty well. Our youngest kid liked the older tractor better while our oldest kid enjoyed the latest technology of a quite new tractor. Luckily we had a lot of drivers available as two of my sisters were also visiting.


We visited Bergen and stayed with my sister and her husband. We love the local fish cakes at Madam Bergen. Definitely worth trying for non-Norwegians and they also have delicious fish soups. The picture above is from the aquarium which is a popular place to bring kids.