Thursday everybody organised and out of the house for school and work and I am left sitting drinking a cup of tea while reading the blogs on here and checking on my FB pals. Tony texts to remind me to phone Kim my specialist nurse and check my bloodtest results. This saves us a wasted trip to Romford and Tony a days holiday from work. Kim tells me there isn't too much highlighted in yellow, orange or pink (which is bad apparently) my platelets are 216, my lymphocytes are down another point to 1.3 and my kidney functions are elevated but thats to be expected while they are working so hard to clear the toxins from my blood and the fact I don't drink enough fluids. It seems we are good to go for cycle 5. She tells me she will put the order into the pharmacy for me, so all I have to do after seeing the oncologist - or more likely the registrar - is to walk to the pharmacy and pick it up, no waiting around.
Phone Tony with the good news and hang some laundry out as the sun has broken through the clouds. I decide to don my wellies and take my camera out and go for a walk around the country park and fishing lake before popping into Tesco's on the way back. Here's a few of my snaps to decorate my blog - I took heaps and put a few on Facebook yesterday. When I got home I had been out for over 2 hours.....thats gotta be good exercise!
I actually remembered to check our phone to see if I had missed any calls, oops there was one from Monday from a friend, must remember to call her back soon! Then there was a message from Lara's History teacher.....he was phoning to tell us how wonderful Lara's powerpoint presentation was, how impressed he was with it and how she stood at the front of the class and presented it, taking questions from the class and wasn't phased when he left the room....he said she was like a mini teacher up there! He had given her some merits and was arranging a "good news certificate" but wanted us to know how well she had done and to give her a pat on the back. How fabulous was that!
Then the next call was from Tony, Sean had been involved in an incident - now I immediately think this means he's been bad or in a fight?! but no a big year 11 kid had thought it would be funny to pick him up by his head and carry him down the corridor like it. Apparently Sean was upset and his neck hurt so the school wanted us to get him and bring him home. Of all the days, his bike was chained to his friends, the kids were getting out early and Tony and Lara had to be at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital for tri-annual checkup at 6pm.
Turns out it was one of Jack's friends who had picked Sean up by his head, it wasn't done maliciously, just "boys being boys". So Sean collected and his bike was put into "the dungeon" an underground storage area and Tony brought all 3 kids home. I did Lara some Tomato Soup, Tony had a pasta dish and they left for London. I ran Sean a bath and put some lavender bubbles in, he lounged around in it for almost an hour and after he said his neck felt a lot better.
Sean and I sat and watched the 2nd new NCIS programme we recorded from Wednesday night and I dished up our chicken wings cooked in the wok and finished in the oven......delicious!
Tony and Lara got home around 8.30pm after having some fissure sealant applied to her molars but otherwise her consultant is really pleased and doesn't want to see her again until April 2010. As Lara is now a "big girl" and way too old for stickers and balloons, Kate gave her a liquid filled tooth keyring!
We all watched some TV and I was a happy girl when Bones came on, as soon as it finished I was off to bed. We are off to see the Wizard of Onc tomorrow !
Thought for today:
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
