The story doth continue...
Thursday morning, 7am, 10th December 2009 and I am just waking up from my slumbers as the radio alarm goes off. And then I remember, I have a breakfast meeting to go to and it starts at 8am!!!! I need to get a move on and I give T a shake and say "I've just remembered that I've got a Bank of England meeting this morning." "What time?" she asks with a stare. "8 o'clock" …
Saturday 5th December 2009. Dear diary, what a day it's been. Started off in a hospital bed with IV antibiotics being pumped into my arm and ended the day in a DJ dancing to "It's raining men" on the dance floor after my first christmas meal of the season. Life with cancer can sure give you extremes!
And I lasted until about 10.30 on our Saturday night out. Not bad I thought but I was glad to get home…
The story continues...
It is now Sunday 29th November and I have just arrived back in hospital after being given a day pass to be at my daughter's wedding. And I was not happy to be back. My one night in my own bed on the Saturday night was bliss and being able to be with T was just wonderful. I'd only been in hospital since Thursday lunchtime until saturday morning but I'd had enough of it so it was with a heavy heart…
In this series of "catch up" blogs I am now waking up on the morning of Friday 27th November, still in hospital and still attached to an IV drip which is slowly discharging antibiotics into my system.
I may have been woken up by the nurses attaching the drip to me at 5.30am but I had started to feel better. I was on two different IV antibiotics, one twice a day and one four times a day with blood tests twice…
Well, it is good to be back home and able to update you on my story. And it's been a tale of a whirlwind of events over the last two weeks since I have ben able to write out my thoughts and experiences. So let's start back on Tuesday 24th November 2009.....
It was raining and I was staying home first thing as we had a chap coming to fix a new aerial for us. Reception had been bad since we moved into the house…
