My bladder seems to have an alarm about 23.37 every night. The consistency is impressive as it doesn't seem to be influenced by anything that goes on before hand. It was no different today and I felt very awake once up but I did manage to get a good doze in until 02.00 which is still a very early hour. I have slept well. I don't feel as awfully sick as I did yesterday and with meds I can reliably predict I am going to be sitting more comfortably today. So pretty good.
Yesterday Dana and I got our Thursday yabber, we had no plans as Kit is still in the throes of a cold. I messaged Dana just to say I was feeling better and was having a coffee, she messaged back saying she was brewing a cup and Kit was asleep. Kit was having a proper sleep as it turned out and our yabber lasted an hour and half and only ended because I needed to lie down for a bit for my back. It is still lifting the spirits and making me smile that everything just aligned for us.
I am still doing my 3 round of Chemo performance review, over the last 2 there has been an increase of intensity and frequency of big waves of feeling sick when being up on two feet. There are also times when the everyday nausea has gone up a level but doesn't last longer. I can see improvements as my stomach has been upset over this period by outside things like the change in meds that made me puke. That said overall I am feeling this side of things have got a bit more.
I am on the lowest dose of private prescription oil so know that I can just book a phone consultation to increase that as we have discussed this before and that time has come. That will help.If I can have a good run over the next few days as my ability to eat is coming back that will improve everything overall. I am on the up there. I would have looked to increase dosage a couple of weeks ago but was still taking very increased doses of codeine for back and didn't want to add anything else to mix.
Again I have found it helpful to articulate this in my blog, a useful but also informal form of care planning.
