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But the subject of this irregular blog is a quote originally from his play The Tempest.
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows"
This has, over the intervening centuries, been borrowed by many writers, not least of whom was Charles Dickens who gave us the more well known version of adversity rather than misery.
By now you will be wondering where I am heading with all this, hopefully you'll stick around to find out, because in amongst the ramblings I hope I am putting my point...
Well it has been a busy few days, managed to get through my bone scan last week without total meltdown and tried to put off the thought of the impending ct scan all weekend. Like everywhere else it seems the weather was lousy and was a definite reason for staying cosy indoors which had the advantage of making sure that all of the washing and ironing got done.
Felt a bit off colour yesterday (not too suprising seeing as the whole family have been feeling rough for a few days) so I got off quite lightly...
Dont know where to begin . iItis now three years since I was diagnosed with Ocular Melanoma(from now on known as OM). Which on original diagnosis was small enough to be treated successfully and I would be able to go back to work within a month. However no one took account of the fact that this tumour was going to do what it wanted and would not be dictated to. The following procedure of putting a radio active disc on the tumour with the idea that it would shrink over a period of time did not work...
so i'm just writing this blog to introduce myself and why i am here.
Basically my girlfriend found out about 3 months ago that her mum's cancer has come back and she now has secondary breast cancer and after many appointments and tests they can only estimate that she has 'years' left.
This has literally broken my girlfriends heart and in turn is breaking mine. Her dad died when she was 5 and because she was adopted she has such a painfully close relationship with her mum, she...
Some of you lovely people left some kind words and sound advice on my blog yesterday. And after talking to my boss I have a good talk to myself. This morning I am back in work still on admin however but am going to the staff room at break to have coffee with the other staff and maybe at lunch time. If I get through that maybe by the end of the week I will be teaching some classes again but small steps at a time. I think maybe I was looking at things all wrong I wanted things to back to normal, but reality...
An update on my nephew. Scan results were yesterday and I went along with my sister to give her support. Nephew had been getting a bit breathless recently and sis was understandably more worried this time. The good news is though that all the scans were clear - chest/mri and heart so we were delighted. Next lot in 3 months but, for now, things are good. Feeling tearful today though the sheer relief that was yesterday but no doubt, two months down the line it will all start to build up again. I don...
And so it came to pass that on the thirteenth (!) day they did Let Her Out. And there was much rejoicing in the House (til they realised how much tidying up they thought they had to do…). So I managed to avoid any infections this time though I’m still on aciclovir which I think is a kind of broad spectrum antibiotic, itraconazole (an anti-fungal), nystatin (antifungal mouthwash) and corsodyl (mouthwash). First week out I brought accounts up to date and made the adverts for the monthly music mag...
Sorry I havent blogged for a while things have been hectic with Dad being in the hospice, mum does the afternoon visiting and I stay at work til 6pm to go and visit him when I am finished. He has been up and down and round about he has a good week then a awful week. Dad still has the lymphodoema in his leg, the physio is coming to look at that tomorrow. He has been fine a good patient better than he was before at the last place. Tonight worried me, he was very drowsy and couldnt keep his eyes open...
