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So my mood last night was pretty doom and gloom after my not so better other half was an incensitive A&*%hole!!!
Anyhow all forgiven, and this morning i go off to the docs with him!!
He suffers from high blood pressure and is medicated for this. He is an absolute swine when it comes to him taking his medication and to be honest if he could get away with it, he plain and simply wouldnt, which he quite often does.Anyhow after all the comotion with me this year, once i was right i gave him a good...
Well thats another hurdle over, have to have the district nurse in for 6 days to check it and change the dressing, the nurse looked at me in amazement when I said it would have to be the afternoon as I am working in the mornings, im getting such mixed messages work wise everyone else has said to keep working to keep my mnind off things and we need to money wise for as much as I can but then its a real pain with appointments at different times.
Another gallon of petrol on Wednesday for my echo cardio...
Pat suffered a massive stroke last Thursday. He is in Hyperacute care in hospital. We have been told that all that can now be done, as Thrombolosis has not worked, is care for him palliativley on the unit.
Thank you everyone who is following this blog and have given me support.
11th May
It's a week since my drugs began infusing and I'm now in the middle of the first of 12 fortnightly cycles.
Visibly my hair has gone grey quickly over the past few months, which is understandable and I can forgive my body for letting this side of my good looks down. As I said to Jayne, that lovely Parish Oven barmaid, "It takes a lot longer now to transform into the Mad Shagger than ever before" If at all. Excuse the terminology.
Yes I have still managed to get to the quiz...
Sunday 6th May
Dark Side Album Cover -
If you haven't listened to it then do
You love it after a few plays
Not such a good night, even the night lights are just too bright and it still feels like I have indigestion. I've been listening to The Dark Side of the Moon at 3am by Pink Floyd which is one of my favourite albums, always taking note of the lyrics of 'Time' which echoes frittering away youth and time doing nothing. As the old saying goes "Youth is wasted...
Saturday 5th
Decent nights sleep however Cliff in the next bed did not sleep at all being doubled up with stomach pains. He's very quiet and obviously tired this morning. I managed to show him how to adjust his bed so that he could sleep whilst sat up.
The only side effect noticed this morning has been in my throat drinking my fresh cold water feeling like I'm drinking broken glass so you can imagine what effect the ice-cream had at lunch all a result of the Oxilaplatin.
My second bag...
Friday 4th May
Started chemo at 5 pm which was 2 1/2 hours late due to my drugs being marked up and sent to Ward 3 instead of Ward 4 where I was actually staying. What More Can I Say. It's just the norm not to expect anything to go right
Anne dropped Sue and myself off and Sue wanted to stop until my treatment started but as usual nothing has gone to plan again so not wanting her to be late home I sent her off assuring her that I would be ok. She was clearly upset and it took a lot of...
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