Janet has got over her grumpy mood and we have some good news for a change... and mixed fortunes...

Hey People, I have got over my boulshy mood of the other day and we have some good news: The new house is ready and we are moving in the weekend after next. It will be the first time I have eaten home cooked food since last June (that is if I can be bothered to cook!). Anyway I am very happy about that. Radiation is going as ok as it can do considering and physically I feel really well better than 30 years ago when cancer wasn't a feature of my life. Saw the registrar in oncology today and he tells me that I am still not allowed to drive my car which is a bugger because it is fully legal (registration, MOT and insurance) for the first time in years. I got him to sign a form for a wig subsidy and many prescriptions (can't afford any visit to the GP) and also my daughter got a winz form signed so that social welfare will pay for a medical alarm for me for in the house. Other than that we talked about my apparent lack of side effects and what sort of timetable for scans post radiation. I truly hate MRI scans but I am going to have to do it again grrrrrrrrr about a month after radiation finishes. I didn't realise that the radiation doesn't actually burn out the evil Ollie cells but scrambles the DNA so they can't reproduce. Healthy cells have a much greater ability to repair themselves and that is what happens on the weekends off... so there will be no improvement to be seen until the evil Ollie cells have completed their lifecycles and died off anyway. I told the doctor that I wished I was more hands on with the treatments and maybe had done my own calculations being a physicist and all. But maybe that is because most of the control of my life is out of my hands and all I can do is come onto here and crack jokes about it all and suffer not at all any more. cheers Janet