Round 4 came and went between Christmas and New Year - relatively easy and then we enjoyed New year and the following week of holiday.
Then at the weekend before school starts my body decided to crumble. An enormous ulcer on the side of my tongue gave me an instant sppech impediment and then a painful lump appeared on the back of my left hand disabling my ability to write!
A nice young Indiandoctor in A&E xrayed it and told me it was a ganglion which was ironic for an RE teacher as tradition has it you bash one of those with a Bible! However it was too painful to contemplate so it was a splint, massive antibiotics and painkillers instead.
My GP took a look at it on Monday and signed me off for a fortnight. This caused me a day of anxiety as I contemplated the chaos of returning a fortnight into term with 120 $th year reports and 2 classes of preliminary Higher exams in the interim but resigned myself to giving into the pain and taking it like maternity leave (after all the chemo is like pregnancy so why not have a few late mornings in PJs and do lunch withsome friends!)
One week in and my tongue is sorted and my hand getting there - now to pstch myself up for session 5 o Wednesday!
