Is it a plane? Is it superman? No it's a tumour...Do'h

Hi everyone,   If you have already received all of this sorry. I can't keep up with the amount of texts and facebook messages I have been sending out and receiving.   Anyway I have been having some medical issues that culuminated in me having surgery on the 28/02/2011 to biopsy whatever is growing in my spine. I was then told on 5/03/2011 that I have a spinal tumour that needs some kind of radiotherapy treatment.   They don't know what grade of tumour I have. They are graded from 1 through to 4. Because mine is growing it is more than a 1 and because I am still breathing probably not a 4 but that is as much as I know. So at least they have made a diagnosis, which is more than was achieved over the last 2 and a half years.   I left hospital last night to come home - I am ok apart from the wound on my back that looks like something from a horror movie. I am pretty exhausted but am a lot more comfortable at home.   Once the wound has healed a bit, the stitches have come out and I am feeling a bit better then I will start undergoing radiotherapy for six weeks. This is to try and reduce the size of the tumour and stop it from causing further damage or growing. The treatment will be 5 times a week and I haven't met with the oncologists yet so I don't the exact details of where and when this will take place.   So basically we are still not completely sure of the situation until the radiotherapy treatment has started. Hopefully it will zap the little bugger and that will be the end of it. Now if that doesn't work then they may have to excise the whole thing which would be risky given the size of it. So basically the next couple of months will define how this all ends up for us.   Thanks again for all of your support and messages as always. You are always know who your mates are when things are tough. I think I am going to have a 24 hour nap now...