#10 EXPECTATION V REALITY

Again blog day is pushed to Thursday after Tuesday and Wednesday are just wiped out in a fog of sleep and aches. It’s not pleasant but at least it is consistent so I now know what I can, or more specifically, can’t achieve on those days. I love that many of you look forward to … Continue reading #10 EXPECTATION V REALITY →

#8 PUTTING IT INTO PERSPECTIVE

So here we are two-thirds the way through the first three-month chunk of chemo treatment. Another day, another hospital trip, another IV and another bed (get in!). This week I was flanked either side by two ladies whose cumulative age must have been 300 years. Both flat out the entire time. Did I partake … Continue reading #8 PUTTING IT INTO PERSPECTIVE →

#7 HERCULEAN TASKS

Long day at the ‘office’ yesterday. Early morning blood tests then, with a three-hour wait before the consultation, I played truant and headed off to the nearby shopping centre for a change of scenery, some retail therapy and to inject some normality into an otherwise pants day. Refreshed I then headed back for my midday … Continue reading #7 HERCULEAN TASKS →

#6 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” — Paolo Coelho Greetings from Sofa Central on a Chemo Tuesday. We do like no blood test day as a three-hour stint is no real hardship, especially when one gets a bed … Continue reading #6 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS →

#5 ROLLING WITH IT

With last week’s Chemo/Immuno on Thursday they had to push Tuesday to Wednesday this week (to allow for at least 6 days in between) so hello from Chemo Day! Keep up at the back please. Thankfully no blood test required this week so I was in early doors and hooked up by 9.30am and out … Continue reading #5 ROLLING WITH IT →

#3 CHECK YOUR BAPS GIRLS

This week’s ‘blob’ is brought to you live from my sofa this Chemo Tuesday evening – because basically if last week’s treatment was like doing 30mph in Martin’s Mazda through the narrow country lanes of a tranquil village to get to the Barbridge pub in Nantwich on a bank holiday Monday, this session was more … Continue reading #3 CHECK YOUR BAPS GIRLS →

#2 PLAYING THE WAITING GAME

Welcome back to the cancer blog. Or my ‘blob’, as my mum called it last week on the phone. She can’t say Debenhams either so I missed that shopping experience in my youth. Meanwhile, she struggles with the name Damien, which is what my sister was going to call her firstborn. Until she realised the … Continue reading #2 PLAYING THE WAITING GAME →