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  • Day 10 Chemo 4 Christmas Day

    locovan
    Father Christmas came to Louis
     
    It has been a great Christmas day I have felt Ok which really has been good.
    So busy getting the dinner ready for when the family arrived and opening presents has been a great time.
    I have enough DVD's now to entertain me and loads of WII games to go with the new Wii Ray and I bought ourselves.
    A friend has given me a great present and that's a session in the massage parlour…

  • Day 9 Chemo 4 Xmas Eve

    locovan
     
    We have had a busy day getting ready for the family Christmas tomorrow.
    After taking the dog for a walk we had lunch and got down to the baking.
    Ray so wanted to make the mince pies so this was him on centre stage so I thought he would just get on with it.
    No oven on, no tins out --"wheres the marg to grease the tins--why are men always saying where's this where's that.
    Well he got underway and must…

  • Day 8 Chemo 4 Nearly Xmas

    locovan
    Merry Christmas to you all xxx
    Well I have had a better day today--I still feel sick from time to time but I havent been which is an improvement.
    We tidied up and then took the dog for a walk to visit friends and take their present round to put under the tree.
    No snow but still some parts were icy and there had been many accidents on the roads.
    I couldn't drink anything today as every tastes so chemical.…

  • Day 7 week 4 chemo so bad this time

    locovan
    My husband has been writing my other blog I do so I thought I would post his comments.

    We forget how our other halves suffer in all this.

    Bless them all.

    December 22, 2009
    I have had my head down the bog more times than I care –I take tablets but they come back up.
    Its not food which is amazing— its like you have a separate compartment for the chemo and its that that comes up because you have this metallic…

  • Day 5 Chemo 4 Icy Sunday

    locovan
    The snow has stayed away again but it is so Icy and impossible to walk with ease around the Park with the dog.
    We have nothing salted here and a few women have slipped and fallen including myself.
    I landed on my knees and got them wet when we tried to walk the dog.
    I had waited until the sun had melted the Ice but where it hadn't it is very dangerous.
    Still it was  nice in the fresh air for a wee while.
    My…
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