Hello thought I would give you an update on my son Jonathan, he went down to Christie clinic in manchester to be assessed for SIRT treatment, before he went he was not very well, complaining of pains, as his chemo had been stopped as it was no longer holding the cancer tide back and we all though the liver tumours were growing and causing his pains.  He came back at the weekend and was really not well being sick and in terrible pain.  He was admitted to ARI and the first thought was a blocked bile duppt, this was not the case, then gallstone, not that either and today told the devastating news that his liver has been damaged by some of the chemo treatments and the liver bile ducts have been damaged and bile cannot pass through to do its job.  They have  managed to get him hydrated and he is going home tomorrow.   They are going to try steroids to see if this can help, if it does not there is nothing else to be done,  he cannot have any more chemo.  Cant eat anything at all with fat.  We are all devasted by this, he is only 34 and been married for 7 months.   He has spent the last seven months recovering from bowel surgery and having 3 day chemo every second week, not even able to go abroad on holiday as he got dvts from one of the trial drugs.  We shall try to make this Christmas as special as we can, difficult when most of the food that you eat for christmas is not for him.   It just seems so surreal as I type this that my only son (he has two sisters who are heartbroken) will never be able to reach his potential and that his lovely wife is having to go through this terrible time instead of the joys of being newly married.  I thought my heart was broken back in April when he was finally diagnosed  but its nothing to the pain of now. I know we have to be positive and make each day count but it is so hard.  I wish each and everyone on this site a Happy Christmas.

leslie