Trishka's blog

I have not written here for a while and I know our friends and family living miles away will be wandering what's going on. Well, Cancer it seems is a big waiting 'game'. Alot of the stress is caused by just not knowing what is going to happen, or when. Waiting, waiting, waiting for intravenous drips to finish or scan results revealed. Appointments with surgeons cancelled, waiting to hear when the next appointnment will…

.. the last 'big' dose of chemo! We are now more than acquainted with the routine. Amazingly we don't arrive too early and don't have to hang around so it's only a short wait before hubby is hooked up to the drip - nice private room - lots of reading stuff and of course, the 2 laptops and blackberry. Drip, drip, drip ...the sound of the pump pushing the saline solution into hubby's veins... Hospital staff are very kind…

yes, we are two sessions down and only 1 more to go and it's 10 day's off before the last of the chemo cycles. Hubby is in fine form. We had a bit of retail therapy today and we did loads of shopping - mainly because he can't go as fast as me so he can't slow me down! We did new printer, new tv, new kitchen tables... chairs... the list goes on.... We came home and hubby got stuck in to getting everything sorted (I have…

... it shouldn't really come as a surprise but it has... to hubby. He walks up a few steps and is out of breath. If life had gone to plan he would have been climbing Killimanjaro next week and here he is, struggling to get upstairs and nothing to do with altitude. He's also been feeling nauseaus alot. He's not actually sick but feels lousy. This last couple of days he has gone to bed for the afternoon - he probably would…

We arrived at the Oncology ward by 9:20am - too early as usual and were allocated a nice room looking out towards the surrounding countryside. Within half hour hubby was sitting comfortably in the big armchair, pillow under his arm and hooked up to the first of many intravenous bags. Day 1 is always a long one - 16 continual hours of various concoctions (including the chemo). Drip drip drip - it's like watching paint…