Up until now, there had developed a definite rhythm of life - all based around the three-weekly chemotherapy cycle. That rhythm has now become somewhat syncopated, or at least interrupted.

The 4th round of chemo infusions were due to occur today. They have been postponed until next Wednesday 20th November.  

Reschedule

The reason for the postponement is that Sue's colon has become inflamed because of the chemotherapy and the oncologist wants to allow it further time to recover. He is also concerned to minimize the cumulative impact on undesirable side effects. The chemotherapy will resume next week with some further lowering of dosages.

The good news is that the scan results were located, read and interpreted to reveal that the treatment is having an effect in shrinking the diseased tissue and therefore slowing the progression of cancer. I guess that it is literally a case of 'buying time', though we are blessed to not see too many actual invoices at this stage!

As the song says, 'the rhythm of life is a powerful thing' - even when it is syncopated or even unpredictably irregular!!