RESULTS DAY
I slept like cr@p last night, waking every hour or so. I have been feeling good and sailed through all my treatment, so everything is gonna be fine.....but then there's that nagging doubt - well you didn't feel ill before!
Got up around 6am because I knew I was disturbing Tony (and the dogs) and came downstairs, made a cuppa...played some scrabble moves on FB and did the kids packed lunches. The family all got up at 7am and Sean's sore throat had worsened from yesterday, he was pale and.......got the day off school - bang goes Tony and I's quiet day 
Got Jack and Lara off to school and finished getting ready - not sure why but I have to dress up a bit for my appointments, almost like I am trying to prove to them how well I am LOL We left and halfway there it started snowing heavily - deja vu to the day I returned for my results after brain surgery! By the time we arrived it had turned more to sleet and then rain.
Well, it didn't start well - they wanted to weigh me. I didn't look at the numbers but Tony did and his sharp intake of breath was enough to tell me I had gained weight - not that I didn't already know that, I have a couple more chins than this time last year but thankfully have not moved up a dress size yet! Still a bit of weight gain isn't the worst thing in the world (never thought I'd say that but heyho how times change!).
Then we stood around (not enough chairs) and then sat around for half an hour. My oncologist and neuro-oncology nurse and registrar were all in a meeting in her room for quite a while before I got seen - uh oh ............. but then I got called to the registrars room (surely she wouldn't be giving me bad news). She said "how are you?" - "fine, but the waiting sucks" I reply, then I hear "the scan's fine" wohooooooo and thanks for putting me out of my misery. She asks if I want her to go through the scans........HELL YES! I am female ergo nosey and I wanna know everything LOL
She showed me the best "slice" from this scan against my August one. Midline is still nice and straight and the operation area is healing nicely - still.........that was over a year ago! Apparently there is still some old blood and gunk there from the op but its reduced a lot since August.
She asked if I was planning a holiday and I said that I am finding it hard to stop listening to my prognosis clock ticking away and living beyond scan to scan, so if she tells me when my next scan is, maybe we can fit one in LOL Well, I am more than happy to report that I don't have to go back to oncology for 3 months and my next scan will be in 6 months time! She said that all they advise regarding flying, is that we take some steroids a few days before and after. I asked if I can get those through my GP and she said she would make a note of that on my letter to them, not that we are planning anything just yet, but the Euromillions on Friday might change that
So now I can breathe a huge sigh of relief and get on with the next 6 months.
Thought for today:
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
CS Lewis
