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  • Day 21 Chemo 2 Resurfacing a road, Windy day and out to Lunch.

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    Men resurfacing a road

    We got up after a great night sleep although Ray complains about my snoring –poor thing.

     
    We had to take the dog out early as we were going to a nice get together at our friends for lunch, with other friends who were invited as well.
     
    It was very windy but not cold as we set off with Louis,  as we got out on the main road, they had resurfaced it through the night, what a…

  • Day 20 Chemo 2 Vampire day and B&Q

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    November 23, 2009

    Clouds

     
    It was Vampire day at the hospital and it was pouring hard as we left for the hospital.
    The traffic was heavy and a panic sets in that we haven’t allowed enough time, but of coarse we had and we arrived early and I was called in straight away, where I was weighed and blood taken and the nurse asked me to deliver it to Pathology to get it in and then she would call me at home…

  • Day 19 Chemo 2 Sunday -Windy and Rain sun and a blackbird

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    Weather wise its been a mixed day as it had poured hard all night but was blue skies with grey clouds when we got up,
    The wind was blowing hard and all the leaves are off the trees now.

    A blackbird

    Gap's are appearing in the undergrowth of the garden behind me and a Mr Blackbird is walking around the garden gathering all the insects and food he can find, he keeps making me jump as he comes out from the…

  • Day 18 chemo 2 and home grown new potatoe's

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    We had a great lie in again today, at last I'm sleeping right through the night.

    Had a lazy breakfast and showered as Ray did all the housework--I think I will buy him and apron for Christmas.
    He has really been doing his share of housework to help me rest. I don't know what I would do without him, the word Partnership has really come to mean something in our Marriage and we are working together on everything…

  • Day 17 Chemo 2 A wet day, a painting and contemplation

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    Ray painted the Irish cottage for me--to give to my friend Catherine when we go to Ireland, I cant trust it in the post so I will have to deliver it personally now!!
    He has put me in there stting on the left.!
    It was very wet all morning and the flooding (the worse for 1000 years) was on the dinnertime news, Cumbria has really been hit hard.
    It was a day just to do house work and sit reading or watch TV as…
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