Firstly, apologies I am a day overdue with my blog but hubby had Friday off to take me to the hospital so I made the most of it.
Thursday and Jack came downstairs looking awful, really pale and said he didn't feel well. So I rattled off an email to the school via the student absence notification address and he went back to bed. Sean & Lara went off to school and Tony had left for work.
I tried ringing Kim my specialist nurse for my blood results and got no answer, I tried my oncologists secretary and got no answer, I telephoned the oncology department and they tried to put me through to Alison (???) and I got no answer ........ finally they put me through to the nurses station in oncology. Kelly (the same nurse who ushers the patients for my oncologist) answered and said the would try to organise a doctor to phone me back as she can check the results but does not have the authority to give them to me over the phone.
Around 10.30am I heard Jack vomiting upstairs and when he came down I quickly handed him a glass of water and sent him back to his room. I feel awful doing that but as I am on chemo next week (bloods willing) I can't chance getting ill. He went back upstairs and remained there until around 1pm. In the meantime, I walked to Tesco's and got the ingrediants to make Chicken Noodle Soup, hopefully this will be light enough for Jack to keep down and not too heavy for Tony and Sean who were going karate training.
I made Jack some toast with a tiny bit of Bertolli on it at lunchtime but he hadn't even finished the second slice before he gave it all back to the downstairs toilet! Back off to his room he went, I phoned Kelly back to ask if she was having any joy getting my results and was told my specialist nurse had them. Phone Kim and yes finally I am through. Platelets are down a bit - now 196 - but to be expected after 5 cycles of chemo and my kidney functions are over the threshold by one point but she can't see any reason why this would stop me getting my chemo on Friday.
Text Tony the good news and actually feel I can relax a bit finally. Jack comes back down around 3pm just before the kids start arriving home from school. I start making the soup and leave it to simmer. I make some toast and hot choccy for Sean and Toast and a cuppa coffee for Tony as a snack before training. They leave just before 6pm and Jack, Lara and I have our soup as I didn't want Jack eating late for fear of it coming back if you get my drift! I went and had a nice relaxing bath so all I have to do tomorrow is fix what hair I have.
Tony and Sean get home and have their soup and Sean settles to play on Call of Duty for a bit. Seems a bit of a gory game to me, but I guess its todays version of us kids playing Cops & Robbers, or Cowboys and Indian's with sticks for guns. I recorded Bones and will watch that next week when I feel like doing little else than laying on the sofa. We watched I'm A Celebrity - oh get over yourself Katie Jordan and went to bed knowing I had to be up early and on the road to Romford.
one of my favourite grasses in my backgarden.
Thought for today:
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
