Just thought I'd stop by and wish everyone a merry christmas. My treatment is due to start on the 4th Jan which will make for an interesting start to the year.
For those that are interested I have created an HCL map in Google maps that allows you to post your location and see if there are any other HCLers near you. The aim being that you can find local contacts and support from others with the same condition.
Oh gee, how can you stand the heat over in Oz? Must be soooo tough!
I saw this on th'inter'web'net today regarding the return of our icy English winter::
Householders have been taking action to clear paths, pavements and roads, with sales of salt soaring in supermarkets.
Morrisons said sales of its 1.5kg (3.5lb) bags of cooking salt have increased by almost 400% compared to the beginning of last week.
While Asda said sales of salt have increased by 300% in the past week.
There has also been a brisk trade in cat litter, which can be used as an alternative to grit, with Sainsbury's reporting a rise of 20% compared to this time last year.
Well, it made me larf a little, and it may even kickstart the UK economy. Come to think of it, there's some cat litter in my shed....
Yes, it's c-c-c-c-c-old over here, I even wore a really thick long pair of rambling socks in bed last night, boy oh boy, sexy or what! Was roasting in bed though..... nearly had to take my jim-jams off.....
Yes, we're both doing well in the remission department, long may those nasty hairies remain dormant or whatever. Down a 4X or Fosters for me, mate - I can't stand the stuff, gotta be beer - keep it in the icy shed, have to bring it in about 3 hours before drinking, so that it's ahd time to warm up, ha!
Christ no we can't be drinking warm beer Frank it has to be cold enough to freeze the enamel of the teeth or else it gets sent back.
Have a warm one for me Frank and i thought i would share a joke i got from me Irish mate.
Lubricant
Murphy's' old lady had been pregnant for some time and now the time had come. He brought her to the doctor and the doctor began to deliver the baby.
She had a little boy, and the doctor looked over at Murphy and said. 'Hey, Murph! You just had you a son,! 'Ain't dat grand, !!' Murphy got excited by this, but just then the doctor spoke up and said, 'Hold on! We ain't finished yet, !'
The doctor then delivered a little girl. He said, 'Hey, Murph! You got you a daughter, !!!! She is a pretty lil ting, too....'
Murphy got kind of puzzled by this and then the doctor said, 'Hold on, we aint got done yet, !'
The doctor then delivered another boy and said, 'Murph, you just had yourself another boy, !'
Murphy said to the doctor, 'Doc, what caused all of dem babies,?' The doctor said, 'You never know Murph, it was probably something that happened during conception.' Murphy said, 'Ah yeah, during conception.'
When Murph and his wife went home with their three children, he sat down with his wife and said,
'Mama, you remember dat night that we ran out of Vaseline and we had to use dat dere 3-in-1 Oil.'
She said, 'Yeah, I remember dat night...'
Murph said, 'I'll tell you, ....it's a f””kin' good ting we didn't use WD-40.
I guess down in Oz you're half-way thru New Year's Eve by now, we don't get it till tomorrow. Have been invited to a party near Manchester, was initially planning on turning up on Friday evening.... till I realised that would be 24 hours late. Must have been drinking too much of that warm UK beer....
************************************************ Here's a couple of funnies for you, one Irish and one Australian:
Two Irish couples decided to swap partners for the night. After 3 hours of amazing sex Paddy says 'I wonder how the girls are getting on'
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Lipstick in School
According to a news report, a certain private school in Brisbane was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom.
That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses).
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers.... and then there are educators
Well i am infact 2 and a half hours away from the typical boozy celibrations one has to inflicte on one's self this time of year oh hum! but you know i do that too Frank. keep thinking that the boozy bit of new years day is the day itself where its actually the bit between last day and first day. Thats the interesting bit where you can cuddle compleate strangers and everyone is nice to each other for a tiny bit of time then we all go our own ways and wish it could be like that for all time , But sadly never is.
But enjoy the moment as me Mum used to say.
oh a quick joke
On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple is involved in a fatal car accident. They find themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they begin to wonder:
Could they possibly get married in Heaven?
When St. Peter showed up, they asked him. St. Peter said, "I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked. Let me go find out," and he leaves.
The couple sat and waited and waited. Two months passed and the couple still waited. As they waited, they discussed that if they were allowed to get married in Heaven, what was the eternal aspect of it all. What if it doesn't work?' they wondered, 'Are we stuck together forever?'
After yet another month, St. Peter finally returns, looking somewhat bedraggled. "Yes," he informs the couple, "you can get married in Heaven."
"Great!" said the couple, "But we were just wondering, what if things don't work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?'"
St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slammed his clipboard onto the ground.
"What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple.
"OH, COME ON!!!" St. Peter shouted, "It took me three months to find a priest up here! Do you people have any idea how long it'll take me to find a lawyer?!"
Well, I guess you will never forget the beginning of 2010!! Just to wish you all the very best...I'm sure you 'll be fine. And, fingers crossed for a straight forward run! I hope you will be pleasantly surprised (that might sound like a strange thing to say!!) and it won't be as bad as you imagined. Your blog sounds like you have everything under control....and thats the best way forward!
We look forward to hearing how you progress and try not to worry too much,
All hositals are different of course, but I was very surprised to read you went to A&E, if you had been neutropenic, thats the last place you want to be - germs/open wounds etc. Did the Haemotology Dept not give you a number to ring at any time if your temperature goes up? At Cheltenham Hosp. everytime I had a problem I would get straight through to haemo/cancer ward, and they would ask me to come in imediately. Plus having an A&E doc treating you isn't ideal either - probably never even heard of HCL!
The rasied temp could have been your cells dying off...which would be good!
If you get another temp & shakes (feeling boiling hot to touch, but actually freezing cold with goosebumps and shivering)...you need to ring imediately not wait till morning... hope you will check everything out when you go for jab today!
