Well, not only did I go to bed early but Ollie slept in till 6.50am, thats good right.......nope all that sleep and I felt worse, always the way!
Got Lara up, made her packed lunch, got Sean up and sent them on their way at 8.30am.....Lara's first day of Summer School, Sean was back by 9.15am and we set about putting a new sim into Jack's old phone - Jack had mine after my upgrade and the "hand me downs" go on........with Sean having Jack's INQ1 that he got in January. Spent ages trying to send contacts over and change the phone name, clear all Jack's music and stuff - this is a social networking phone so it synchonises their facebook and messenger contacts with the phonebook - OMG way too confusing for the Mum, so left the boys to it.
Phone rings and its Kim my SNON who says that Emma has given the go ahead for me to get my chemo early...they are putting the presciption into the pharmacy this morning and it would be ready this afternoon. I think they forget that I don't drive (even if I did, I couldn't for a year with a brain tumour and after a seizure) and that it takes 50minutes to get there. Anyway she said I don't need to see Emma unless I want to specifically, I mention about the constipation and tell her about the way I took the tablets - WRONG apparently, the big anti-nausea should have been taken 45mins BEFORE the chemo and I was taking it an hour AFTER......oops! She suggests that as I got through the week doing it wrong and didn't suffer much nausea to reduce the amount of domperidone I take as that binds you up. I say I wish someone went through it all with me before and she says she isn't sure how someone DIDN'T! Ah well you live and learn eh! We are going to try and get the presciption tomorrow but I am not sure I will start it any earlier than next Monday anyway, to have a good Anniversary weekend. Apparently Emma has reduced my chemo amount to see if this has less effect on my platelets.
Did the laundry, took a risk and hung it out - well, lifes all about risks eh ......Sean went out with his friend T (Tyler) to play football and Jack took refuge in the bedroom to play Counter Strike, although he did keep popping down and making his old mum a cup of tea or three.
I popped on my little pink Ipod Shuffle and went and washed up, then started peeling the spuds etc for the roast dinner we were having. Now I have an ecclectic mix of music, mostly left over from when I went in for brain surgery - Lorraine knows this story but I'll share anyway - probably have already and forgotten LOL The night before christmas - sorry the night before surgery and I was having trouble with my eyes, they kept leaking! So I closed the curtains around my bed and tried to drive the thoughts of dying or becoming a vegetable away with some music....I had some Bob Marly to chill out too, which came in handy around 3am.......some Blur (probably about to lose Indie as a reader but as an Essex girl it had to be Blur) and a few tunes I just can't help dance too, notably Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself....so there I was in Sahara B, curtains drawn, sitting in bed with my arms waving like a loon to this tune - I insisted that Lorraine put this on her Ipod and did the same in her french hospital. Well the other track I have to dance to is Jock Jams "Everybody Dance Now" and this is what Lara caught me shaking my ample booty to today. I was oblivious to her standing in the kitchen doorway as I with potato peeler in one hand and spud in the other danced rather well I thought until I spun round and caught looking at me like I gone completely mad......."how was summer school"....."yeah OK, but that was a bit scary Mum".......what did she mean!!!!!!! There's also some Coldplay, Killers, Blinks 182, Fallout Boy, Marc Bolan, Fatboy Slim, Procal Harum (?) only cos it was number one when I was born and various others........its ok Indie, I am going to add Champagne Supernova in your honour - when I work out how!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway dinner was as always scoffed inbetween the kids throwing insults at each other - does that ever stop? Roast Chook and trimmings. I felt wayyyyyyyy too fat after, so Tony and I walked the dogs to Tesco's and he waited outside while I popped in and bought some milk and got £10 cashback in change to pay Sean for taking his little sister to and from Summer School. Ollie was worn out and I wasn't sure he would be able to walk all the way home......he did thankfully as I didnt fancy carrying him. Get through the door and Sean says, "Lara's friend is back from holiday and going to summer school, she doesn't need me anymore you've saved yourself some money".........NOW HE TELLS ME!
Got the laundry in and watched some TV....now drinking a nice cuppa and remembered to blog!
Thought for today:
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
