Three Good Things

Here’s one of them 

Good luck tomorrow with your chemo Button16. Sorry to hear you’ve had such a rotten week.

XX

Hi all, 

really hope the chemo goes well tomorrow - miserable. Sorry to hear you've had a bad week. Be thinking of you. 

you really are a marvel with all this sewing and cooking - I feel quite ashamed of my lack of industry! Well done for getting through the last few months - and with such grace. 

three good things:

1. got a lift to school whilst standing at the bus stop - very grateful as feel very low in energy due to coming off my steroids (that's really no fun, anyone any experience of coming off dexamethasone after nearly a year of use - I had it to reduce swelling on my brain from the mets??). 

2. had a piano lesson - much fun despite feeling rubbish. I now understand how the pedal works! 

3. lovely story time with my youngest who has just gone to bed - she's been a little manic since school pick up so a nice relaxed bedtime was very welcome. 

xx

I really hope you recover quickly from this your last chemo Daloni and that your strength returns so you can enjoy ‘time off’ treatment.

1 I’ve been able to do more the last few days. By that I don’t mean marathons, just my first trip to Sainsburys in two weeks. Actually my first trip anywhere except hospital. I’ve got really good at buying in enough to get me by for after chemo periods.

2 Now I feel ok to drive I feel liberated.

3. Reading a lovely book about Venice and remembering when I was there. Where did the last 44 years go! But I can still taste my first glass of vermouth! Wish I had some in the house now. I’ll have to go back won’t I?!! To Venice that is!

XX

Punt E Mes Vermouth, 75 cl https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004EAFFIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_OT..CbME92QDF

Lass

Xx

Loving the Tote Bag Daloni. The colours look great. Just as well you made two or your daughters would be fighting over them. 

Hi all,

Daloni, I agree with Polly:the colors are great.

SussexO, Understand about the driving.Went out this week in the car on my own.

Three from yesterday:

1) Pleased to have taken myself to sewing in the car. 

2) Neighbours back from holiday. I confessed to having fatally neglected a pot of basil on a sill behind a curtain. I did attempt to resuscitate it with water but suspect it will not come back! I was most kindly forgiven.

3) Lovely golden-orange sunlight on the tops of the hills 9pm. Love the long daylight hours.

Three from today:

1) Looking at Lass's photos of veg and flowers on the gardening thread.

2) Roses now blooming in our garden and also at War Memorial garden where there is also clematis of white with blue veins. 

3) Pulled grass choking the delphiniums. Felt good to do. Breathless quickly, but happy.

Gobaith

How have you managed a year on Dex!

I only have to take it for the day before and for five days during and after drugs!

Whilst on it it makes me want to eat and eat. - Since diagnosis 5 years ago I have put on 3-4 stone!

I can’t sleep.

I feel depressed and soooooo tired  - never get a bounce like you and Daloni mention.

I can’t wait to stop having to take them each time.

Am I just not normal?

My three things:

1. Managed half an hour in the garden to tie up my poor bedraggled roses inbetween ALL THE RAIN! Did me good after getting stir crazy yesterday. It is June isn’t it?

2. Had a lovely cuddle with my youngest granddaughter (17 months) who wouldn’t let my daughter return from the school run without coming into see me. Soooo determined just like her mother was.

3. Struggling to think of a third thing whilst listening to the news I realise how lucky I am. I have a warm safe home and family near.

XX

Hi

yes steroids destroy sleep and play havoc with the waistline. I have put on a stone in the last six months. They seem gi be a necessary evil as they do reduce the chemo side effects. I was chatting to a friend who had chemo 30 years ago when there were far fewer drugs around to help us through and it sounded awful. 

My three good things. 

1. I got slightly further than the bottom of the garden for the first time this week. I took a trip to the fabric shop to stock up and scout something for the dressing gowns my niece wants me to make for her bridesmaids at her wedding later this year. Sample pic to follow....

2. I got to the postbox finally. The letters I needed to post are no longer giving me recriminating looks. 

3. My lovely daughters. They make me happy. 

I like this fabric. Hope my niece does too