Yesterday was my birthday.
Instead of the usual early morning singing down the phone from various family members which is the norm I was up very early for a planning CT scan. As the early morning traffic around the hospital ( not my local ) is notoriously bad we set off at silly o’clock.....and arrived an hour and a half too early! How do you judge these things?
Got in at appointed time only for the team to decide…
During surgery I had groin lymph nodes removed from both the offending right side and left. Latest news is that nothing showing from left side but 3 out of 11 nodes showing signs on the right side.
Chatting to youngest daughter and saying it seemed a bit brutal to take left lymph nodes out.
Her comment? ‘ Honestly Mum, if they had to call you back later to remove the left nodes you’d be gutted!’
It took…
After my surgery I seem to still be quite bloated and swollen in the lower abdomen. I did have lymph nodes removed on both sides so this is to be expected. But this morning in the shower I suddenly realised when I looked down I could actually see my feet!
What a sense of achievement this has brought to my day - totally ridiculous!
In other news - Macmillan Coffee Morning raised £210.30 which for a tiny village population…
5 weeks of radiotherapy started yesterday and today was first of 5 weekly doses of chemotherapy.
Each of these unknown new experiences is very daunting so I presented myself this morning with slightly wobbly legs.
As with all my experiences since this journey began, everyone I met was just lovely. The nurse who I was to spend most of the day with was great and explained everything she was about to do. She walked away…
