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I'm not sure exactly what's wrong with me today, but I have spent the best part of it so far blubbing. I did manage to fit in a client meeting in the midst of the trauma, paste a banana grin on my face and endure a whole hour without my eyes leaking but it was a close call. As soon as I got back in the car with my colleague - tears again. I can only think that it is because I still feel crappy from this stomach bug, and…

Last time I wrote I was gloomy Eeyore. Well ...... it passed. Actually, the hospital visit for A's pre op assessment went just fine. It was little bit like Treasure Hunt – round the hospital to the various units for different tests, from bloods to urine to ECGs, we wandered up and down the corridors and took a lift and then stairs and then back where we started ..... I think maybe it is some kind of twisted endurance…

So it's morning and I know that in four hours we will be back in the hospital for the three hour pre op assessment and tests. I have my book to the ready - I picked one that is super interesting so that when I read a page and none of it makes it through to my thought processes before I blankly read it again, at least I know I am missing something good! ;-) I have something of a checkered history with hospitals it must…

If you asked some people on the street what they imagine a party for a group of people who have or had cancer would be like I should think you would get grimaces and a general feeling that it would be an event cloaked with misery with a large helping of underlying fear for good measure. Now I know I have written about how A and I are coping with our fairly recent life change that cancer has bought us, but we really are…

We have lots of plans to slot in over the next couple of weeks. Next week we are following up the pre op assessment (oh isn't it amazing how quickly you adjust to a life when you spend a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms?! I always have a novel, change for coffee, antibacterial hand wipes and a fixed grin in my handbag wherever I go now - just in case!) with a trip to London to see Les Mis (Andrew's favourite show…