Friday was just another ordinary day - even though it was my double anniversary special. So I got the kids off to school and let the dogs out in the garden, rushed to get the last of the recycling out before the refuse men came and then it was just me and the dogs at home.
Well some special day this is eh....... I washed up, tidied around, did some more xmas shopping online and browsed this site and Facebook. It's all a bit of anti-climax really........ you look forward to the day you finish chemo (kinda) and reach another milestone but like Drew said yesterday even family don't really understand it always, they nod and smile and congratulate but thats as much to humour me as anything I think.
I decided I wasn't going to walk to Tesco's today because we would go out for dinner, I was feeling incredibly good considering it was day 5 of chemo, a slight stomach ache but maybe a good few helpings of pizza would help anyway. Sean was home and on the PS3, Jack had stayed to do some extra science work (his GSCE's will be here faster than we expect) and Lara was at trampolining club.
Shortly after 5pm with all kids collected from where they were we headed off to the "Hut", not exactly my dream dining establishment but the kids all love it and its cheap and right now thats about all the budget will stretch to. We were in time for "Happy Hour" oh how exciting - no not the sort of Happy Hour I remember from working in London but £4 for a starter, pizza & drink. Mind you the starters were miniscule.....even our waitress said I am going to ask for some more potato wedges - think they were having a bad night and she looked very stressed.
Pizza's came, except for mine but then I do have a tendancy to ask for something "off menu", there was a limited choice with the HH deal but one was mushroom and mixed peppers - ordinarily I would have had that but knowing how bad the acid indegestion is for me on chemo, I asked for just mushrooms. Apparently the "chef" got it wrong and made me one with JUST peppers. The whole family laughs as this is "normal" for me, I am not a burger person either but if we go, I have to ask for one without cheese and am always made to wait for that too!
But they weren't laughing when my pizza came up, cos to make up for the wait - the chef gave me a large pizza, yeah you all wanna sit next to Mum now eh! Sean and Lara wanted the ice-cream factory and Jack had another drink. Tony and I had lemon & ginger cheesecake, was very small (prob just as well) and it all came to £25.38 bargain, I'd have spent that easily in Tesco's yesterday!
Home and Tony takes Sean off to play Table Tennis and we settle down to watch TV, I was very very tired but made it to the end of IACGMOOH and all but collapsed into bed after two spoonfuls of Gaviscon. Here comes the weekend...........
squirrel last Autumn in the Town Park
Thought for today:
Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.
Buddy Buie & J.R. Cobb
