just an update for you all, on the 12november the day before my 65th birthday we were given the bad news that there was nothing at all to be done for our dan & his life expectancy was 4 to 8 weeks, he has been in & out of christies since & has now spent a week in the hospice in blackburn ..(im inclined to call it park lee hospice ) they are wonderful with him, such dedicated people doing a wonderful caring job ...our dan has 1 week of his 8 weeks left ..but is suffering these past 2 days his breatheing is going worse ..but i hope he will be a tad better tommorrow (new years day) as jet has organized a party for him & 10 of his close mates, in the hospice ..i will be there for about an hour, then back to usual routine for us ...going up every day. god bless my brave boy x x