Indeed - keep us updated, and please continue to pass our best wishes on!

Good to hear that news, best wishes to all:)

Heartening to read the positive updates MRS.
Continued Best wishes

A good step in the right direction

Thanks everybody.

Holey Moley, I'm knackered today. Spent 20 hours driving a high-top Transit from Cambridge, via Glasgow, to Inverness and back. It's now sat outside my parents' place packed to the rafters. Taking it to my brother's place to empty it to store whilst we're waiting to get into the house.

Exciting drive across the A66 - strong winds and blizzarding snow.

That's a seriously long drive, did that van have cruise control?! We continue to think of you and your family.

It did but I also never use it - there's too much traffic. Adaptive cruise control would have been good.

Thanks, Dave.

Good news finally on the results: Eve is in "remission". Chemo starts again this week to mop up any remaining cancer cells. All going well, treatment should be complete in 3-4 months..

There are still ways it can go badly wrong and we still aren't clear on the long-term prognosis (still more test results) but this is a very positive first step..

Thanks for all of your support.

Excellent news

+1 Richard

Wow! most excellent news, I guess you guys can breath again...well much easier anyway...

Great news

Yay!

Good news! Long may it continue!

Congratulations on the positive news so far.
Lets hope this great progress continues.

Thank you, everybody!

I have just seen this, I can't tell you how glad I was to get to page three and hear the great news about remission, my fingers will be tightly crossed for you all but especially for Eve.

Such are the highs and challenges of cancer treatment: had to bring Eve into A&E just before midnight because she had a temp spike of 38.7C

We're under strict instructions to bring her in within an hour if her temp exceeds 38.0C

She's (we're) back on the TCT ward on precautionary IV antibiotics whilst they test for bugs. We were admitted at 3am - as it happens at exactly the same time as another patient. Eve's fine - most likely a response to one of the chemos

A&E at Friday midnight is a grim place

Today is my 25th wedding anniversary- not sure this is the way one should spend it.

Eve is currently an in-patient having got some sort of infection causing a fever. Yesterday we got the news that she will need the more brutal chemo and probably a bone marrow transplant. This isn't really what we wanted to hear but better now than later. Chances are that she won't now be able to have kids.

You learn to count your blessings though. Last week two kids being treated on the ward were told their cancers were terminal. There's always someone worse off than you.

When it comes to families being put through the mill Richard an unkind twist of fate seems to have put you up there with the front-runners

There are positives that come to mind; Charlie's remarkable recovery and the fact that these youngsters have a couple of parents to be proud of in the way that they handle adversity.

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What he said... and please pass our best wishes to Eve.

As above and congratulations on your anniversary I'm sure you and Mrs MRS will have a small celebration regardless as to what's happening and it's good that you've stayed solid together through everything and that will mean a lot to the kids too

I can only add my heartfelt wishes for Eve to recover as speedily and fully as possible to those above.
You are all shining examples of dignity and positivity in adversity.
Happy Anniversary!

Thank you, folks.

All is OK and we know just how lucky we are. It's very tough on the kids though.

Continued best wishes MRS to you all.