First virus treatment

Jan Arne received his first virus treatment today. I took a train from Tampere and am just visiting him at Docrates (or actually this part of the hospital is a ward of a private hospital called Eira). Jan Arne has a private room with a 40 inch Sony Bravia so he'd be happy except no Canal+ = no ManU football match for him today.

First thing in the morning they had taken blood tests and the values keep on amazingly good levels. Then they injected some radioactive stuff in him to take a PET scan, after which they injected the genetically engineered adenoviruses into five spots of the lymph node and liver metastases. He is currently a biohazard and radioactive so I sit on the other end of the room (just kidding). They had seen in the PET scan a bone met in his hip which they had missed in the scans in Tampere, we will have to ask them if it should be radiated.

At night he may start feeling the effect of millions of viruses in his body and may run a high fever so I will escape to my cousin's residence and leave him to more capable hands (nurses). He should be ok enough to get home tomorrow morning when we'll take a train back to Tampere.

So things are looking ok at the moment, please spare some thumbs and prayers and positive thoughts that this treatment will have some effect! Thanks for all the support until now, we have so many friends it seems...