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  • Sevenoaks Vets Hockey Tour

    I seem to have woken up today just as sore and battered as if I had actually played hockey on pitch with the girls over the three day weekend – ow! Apparently my 'movement stamina' is very low – so even jigging like an old bag on the dance floor and lifting my pint of…

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  • Touches of Blessed ‘Normality’

    On the one hand, it's a very frustrating month now, having been forced to take a break in treatment due to the emergency hospital admission for breathing issues and the wait for the new chemo jab that is still no-show as yet from the US. On the other hand, the break has meant I've felt…

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  • Humpday Wednesday

    Morning lovely peeps Saw Prof yesterday and we compromised on having 2 Velcade injections (plus some steroids and the usual gibbons – hence I've been up since 3am and now have my lovely rouge 'steroid face' on) this week. Managed to dodge the Revlimid bullet in the end, so that's handy. Will start a 4…

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  • Last Day Before It All Starts Again

    The calm before the (shit)storm……. Having been off treatment for a couple of weeks now I feel SO much better. Went to what we call the Secret Carpark in Richmond Park yesterday and managed the longest walk I have done in months, with H, our mate Jules and the dog beast. Probably about a mile,…

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  • Thank God It’s Friday

    Hurrah, fast forward three days since leaving hospital and I feel much better. (Well, apart from Scrumpy practically ripping my left arm off as she shot out of Claire White's car footwell yesterday at the park…when will I ever learn that dog has the speed end power of a tiger when she spots grass? Bloody…

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  • Wednesday

    Got out of Parkside yesterday, pretty freaked about the whole stay. Had a bad final night, nurse walked in to check me at 2am and was so loud I thought it was 6am and time to get up. My bedsheets were as usual soaking wet – because the mattresses are wipe down and the sheets…

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  • The Monday Update

    Greetings campers Not a huge amount to report today apart from the all-important…. I'm Going Home Tomorrow. I carried on with all the antibiotics, nebulisers etc today – including a new toy called a Turbohaler – and don't envy the poor Pharmacy woman whose job is it is get her head round all the changes…

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  • The Sunday Update

    Well hats off to Charlotte the lungs consultant who appeared this morning to review me as if Sunday was just another working day in the week – that is impressive dedication. And who then released me from HDU onto the third floor, so I am now residing in room 301, which is very spookily the…

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  • The Saturday Update

    Things are heading in the right direction, a bit of a way to go still but definitely a step up today. Well, apart from feeling pretty sick half the day and coughing my little socks off for hours on end – that bit I could certainly do without. Main news is that tomorrow I can…

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  • The Friday Update

    Well, things today are a good few steps up from yesterday so that's a good start. Temperature has come back down via the IV drug bombardment, although I have come out with a splendid case of cherry red face and cleavage probably due to taking yesterday morning's steroids before the planned chemo session – so…

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