Besides the care for Panormitis we had another serious matter in our family. One week ago, my niece Chantal( Anneke's daughter ), who was pregnant, had been taken into hospital with terrible pains.  She gave birth to a beautiful girl but found herself into life danger for more then one week where she was taken into IC. We were all worried so much and prayed for her. She is very strong and thanks God she made it!!! What a relief, what a week!! That is the reason I did not feel like writing on this blog as well.

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But all is slowly getting better.

Panormitis nearly finished two weeks of therapy chemo/radiation and ........... I really see he is getting a bit better. Although he is very tired ( no wonder!!), he is trying hard to make some progress. He even laughed again these days, something he did not do for a long time. After we had the good news about my niece getting better, my brother Freek took him for a game of biljart yesterday.  The last two years Panormitis organized competition games of biljart in Chris Cafe in Skala. He is a very good player and so he won Freek with 7 to 4. He came home yesterday night and looked so satisfied and happy!! It made us all feel good to see him like this.

Freek also brought us a hometrainer ( bycicle) and Panormitis did 3.7 kilometer of biking today!!!  After this he had a good rest of a few hours and that's why after diner we went out with  P&F's oldtimer the Volvo to see the sunset near the harbour of Scheveningen. He made some beautiful pictures of which we will show you some.

Next week on Friday he will have another MRI taken, as it is halfway radiation. Also he gives blood once a week and we speak to the radiologist Dr. De Haan each Tuesday, so they follow up with his progress. They are all so fantastic, polite and helpful at the radiation department,  wonderful people. Also we are taken to and from the hospital by taxi now, which is making things much easier for Panormitis. The train was too tiring for him and made him restless. 

The other good news is that today was his last day of cortizone!!!!! So if he progesses well, he will not be needing them anymore, or for the time being. Sometimes patients have to return again to cortizone if neccesary.  Let's hope he won't be needing them, as it gives him such an apetite and makes him so restless as well.