Can I **** in - I was passing the computer on my way to toast some cheese and pineapple sandwiches for our evening meal and I saw you had posted. Good luck for the Thursday appointment - I hope you hear what you want to hear.  I know all about forthcoming husbands Newbie is something of an exception - most men are monosybillic ('scuse the spelling).  Ian's vocubulary these days is approx... yes... no... ok.... awful... I 'spose....  He is determined to do the next Avastin and the next two Irinotecans and the 140 Xeloda and then when everything is to stop, ask questions then.  I realise how lucky I am that Ian's income protection insurance means I was able to pretty much give up work and keep him company and fetch and carry on ok/awful days. Ian turns 61 on Monday next (our Queen's Birthday holiday).  Not bad for a man diagnosed with incurable cancer at 54yrs and given 1-2yrs likely remission We are flying to Queenstown in the South Island of NZ tomorrow and I have booked a 2hr chopper ride through the Southern Alps and 2hr cruise in a fjord as a highlight.  I am feeling more and more that this will be our last hurrah together and I plan to pull out all the stops to make it wonderful. Hi Russ - just wanted to say hello before I swan off with my man to alpine pastures new.... for five days anyway.  Well done you two