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So now back at home and at long, long last am pleased to report a daily improvement in my health (first time since back in early November!). Whilst not wanting to tempt fate the past two nights have seen better sleep patterns and although waking up with a sore throat I actually feel as though I am now officially on the mend after radiotherapy treatment. Not feeling as sick as much, seem to be a little more energetic, appetite coming back (as soon as pain has gone I will be getting food and drink...
H is improving daily. Great.
H's neck is half recovered. Great.
H's mouth ulcers are on the decline. Great.
Morphine dose slightly reduced. Great.
Awake during day more. Great.
Spots have gone. Great.
Four teaspoons of the blandest soup in the universe eaten. Great.
Laughing at own jokes again. Great.
Reading again. Great.
Weight is stable. Great.
BUT best of all ....................
I can kiss H on the lips once more.
A M A Z I N G, B R I L L I A N T and F L I P P I N G R E A...
Called mum first thing in the morning, my little niece is
there, so she sounds very cheerful. Still got fever and back pain. But with a
young child in the house, she feel life again. In comparison to Western world, Chinese
people have greater attachment to their family. It goes both ways. Not only
young people stay with their parents even after they got married, but also, the
older generation treating their grandchildren better than their own. They spoil
them as much as they can. Of course this create...
The 'wonder drug' finally arrived by courier van yesterday afternoon. Opened the pack and read the instructions. I am to take abiraterone on an empty stomach, not less than two hours after a meal and not less than one hour before eating. (!) My colleagues on the Prostate Cancer group know all this of course. Prednisolone too, a drug I have always hoped to avoid; now it's supposed to help me. So, as meals are variable in this house, I took it in the middle of last night. I have to get...
Life is so unpredictable, i think our attitude towards this will make the different.
I think no one ever imagin one day they would searching in this site for information and support. I never think i will end up in England, having my own family here. Thousands miles from where i grown up, having my first job, my first love and a world i have try to build. Sometime even with my husabnd beside me, or standing in my garden, i still feel it is so unreal. Never in a million years i could guessed my life...
Well, now I'm grumpy
I gave up a well paid job to look after Dad 2 years ago when he had mobility problems but since September and recent meso diagnosis has needed me for all his care/meals and is housebound.
My brother is retired, doesn't live locally and isn't involved with Dads care but has said he wants to meet with Dads doctors, speak to Dad as he must get a Power of Attourney and he wants to use a friend to pursue legal mattters. It's the way he wants to support us. Dad is still...
Called mum again because she's starting a fever again since yesterday. Don’t know what had caused it. She sounds not that bad, or she try to sounds better for me. Told her how my cat behave badly yesterday, made her laugh. I like that.
The information they got from the doctor still unclear and now we still left in a puzzle whether her liver cancer is primary or secondary. She going back next Monday for her appointment, hope my sister can bring back more in-depth information on that issue...
Interesting day. First the regime: lots of fruit and now the visualisations with bone breathing as mentioned in Day 2. I have extended the bone breathing to include the whole skeleton. As many will know the human skeleton from museums etc, imagining this is not too difficult. To the foot-leg-thigh-pelvis breathing I have now added the arms to include the rib cage and spine at the same time; from left hand through forearm and humerus to ribcage and back. Ditto for the right hand. Seven times each...
