Haven't written anything for a while-forgot my password and was too lazy to press a button to get a new one! Well,I pressed the button tonight!
I am back in the old chemo routine and it feels if it never stopped!Due my fourth round of 5FU and Irinotecan tomorrow.Things going smoothly so far-no nasty effects that some people have reported and warned me would happen.I guess everyone is different,so I just take each day as it comes.My hair is a bit thinner so I have a prescription to get a wig-might not bother,but it is nice to know I have the option.
A few nice things have happened since I last wrote.The nicest thing was that my daughter Claire got engaged to Paul -They went on holiday to New York and Paul proposed on the steps of Carrie Bradshaw's house-Claire is a big fan of Sex And The City! Claire was surprised but we were not,as Paul had already asked Bill for his permission to marry her.No date , as yet , for the wedding , but plenty of magazines have been bought!
I was at a concert in the newly opened SSE Hydro in The Proclaimers,and I had a great night-chemo is not going to keep me from enjoying myself as much as I can! They sang all their hits and more.It is a great venue,and I look forward to attending many more concerts there.
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| The Hydro |
The following week I went to see Jamie Cullum at the Armadillo in Glasgow-another great concert from a guy we have been going to see for about ten years now!
Also went to the BBC Good Food Show at the SECC,and it was the best yet-Nice to see
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| James Martin-delicious! |
I am not going to dwell on the chemo side of things,as it is just incidental in my life-I get it every fortnight and just deal with it.I drink loads of water on the days of chemo and a few days after,as this helps to keep my mouth clean and flush out the chemicals.Seems to work for me-simple but effective.I have a sleepless night on the first day of chemo,and this is due to the high dose of steroids that have been pumped in to me.I know it is going to happen and have accepted it,so just live with it-I sleep well every other night.
One of my workmates retired recently and we went out for a meal to a place called Citation,in Glasgow's Merchant City.Was lovely to see the girlies again and catch up with all the gossip from work.They truly are the best bunch of people I have ever worked with.Wasn't too impressed with the meal but I won't badmouth that on here.
I got a lovely present through the post a few weeks ago-it was from Gail,one of my Twitter buddies-we had started a group ,originally the famous five,but numbers grew,so we are now #lucky8.Basically we are all going through the same thing at the moment.Gail decided to cheer us all up and sent a bag of
I joined a gym recently ! It is all part of a joint initiative -CANmove-between Macmillan Cancer Care and Glasgow Sport-fully funded by Macmillan. It was very enjoyable and I am glad I went-wish more folk would take advantage of it though,as there were only two of us there!
Rosie went to Berlin for a few days for work(alright for some).Steven was on nightshift,so Alan stayed with us -he seemed to
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| Alan enjoying meringue from the Good Food Show! |
Bonfire night tonight-our dog Bobo is a nervous wreck at this time of year-don't know what happened to the poor beast when he was younger-we are the third family to own him.I decided to buy him a collar with inbuilt calming pheromones added to see if it would help him.He has had it on for a few days and seemed ok but he is back to his slobbering quivering self tonight.Oh well,back to the drawing board.....
I am attending the Scottish parliament next week.It is an event to meet up with MSPs,and people associated with the charity Beating Bowel Cancer,patients , and families.It should be interesting. Although the NHS is UK wide,treatments for cancers vary in Scotland,England,Ireland,and Wales.Some drugs readily available in England are not so readily available in Scotland .Even bowel screening is targeted at different age groups.I look forward to meeting up with some people I met at the patient day in London in April.
