Musician dDub (Derek Browne) has end stage cancer and needs help

Hi lovely friends and family. After 10 days in the hospice Derek can finally come home. Good food, lots of love and care from the hospice team and good pain management have meant he is strong enough again to be cared for at home.

Yesterday we had a very frank discussion with the oncologist and hospice Dr.

There are two stark choices.

1. Receive Chemotherapy; This will knock him back again and depending on his marrow reserves he will either recover and have less pain and extended life (months) or won't recover and will be in the same or worse shape he is in now.

It also takes 3 cycles (over 2 months) to see if it is working 😞

If it does work and he gets stronger then we will go for immunotherapy in Japan.

2. Let the disease run its course. The time frame for this is unknown (again in terms of months), he will have good days and bad days and as time goes on the bad days will outnumber the good ones.

She did say we can wait another two weeks before making the decision as he is stable again now.

So I asked D what the most important use of his limited energy was. It was really clear.

Derek's main goal is to record his remaining acoustic songs. He has been working on these for the past 3 years and they were all ready to go before he got ill.

His producer has said he is ready to go when Derek is, so we are hoping and praying that his present improvement will continue so he has enough energy to record them within the next two weeks.

I know that many many of his friends and extended family would love to visit, for now it just isn't possible and I am sorry.

Tomorrow he is coming home and we are going to have some precious time with our cats and the garden.

We are still adding in alternative treatments and still hoping and praying for recovery.

Much love Vxx