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I slept ok last night maybe not the whole 6-7 hours but did sleep.
It is going well for me for the time being. if i feel a bit sick i pop in a few ginger cubes w/o sugar and it stops the feelings. i am taking besides my usual meds all my natural supplements. added pomegranates and turmeric with piperine and bio-25 too. all to help the body cop with the chemo. i am eating well light stuff, nothing heavy like rice or potatoes or meet or chicken. i eat graines and pulses and vegetables. i bought today...
i feel great
trying to doze off. my tummy hurts a bit,
i have taken ginger in tea and dry ginger helps the tummy to calm down a bit
didnt eat heavy, drank plenty of water.
had tablets pomegranate extraxt, curcuma extract, and bio-25 probiotics
i think my good feeling right now are due to high moral and the intake of foods and meds.
i have a bad taste in my mouth during the day, but it is tolerable.
So basically on Thursday I finally told my tutor about everything that's been going on with my mum. I don't think he was expecting to hear that my mum was dying. Academically, I'm going to be monitored until my January exams, if things go bad in January I can either defer the exams until august next year or take the year out. Not exactly a great selection of choice.
He also told me about the counselling service which I'm just signing up to now. My tutor was quite helpful and I think I...
Early in 2004, when I was 58, I went to see my GP about my twice nightly visits to the toilet. I knew that it is a common occurrence amongst men of my age and expected to be referred for ‘a simple procedure’ to the prostate gland to fix the problem. First, as a routine, I was asked to have a blood test. A few weeks later, I happened to be at my local surgery seeing the nurse for something trivial so mentioned I hadn’t had the result of the blood test. “No problem”, she said, “let’s look at your computer...
I posted about my situation in The Room. I have now decided to give the subject the space I feel it deserves and give it a blog of it's own and a full airing and ramble on in an attempt at some closure.
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