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A tough weekend
I feel like shit. Total, utter, abjectly miserable shit. Just to set the context, in case it doesn't leap off the page as you read this cheery pile of old cobblers. My skin hurts. It feels like someone has injected a thick layer of poison right under it, such that even a pat on the…
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The Latest 48 Hours
So much sums to happen in such a short space of time in this weird old medical world that I traipse hopelessly and haplessly round. So – things to report are: Firstly, I had the right heart catheterisation yesterday. A pain in the neck in every sense of the word! Most notable features were that…
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Much Better Day Today
Ha – total opposite to yesterday, all down to me taking the 10 steroid tablets that are part of the chemo routine as well as one small but very powerful 'mega steroid' tab that Prof has prescribed to see if it might get some of my inflammation under control. Result? I have been an active…
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The Latest Cobblers
God, yesterday was the shittest day I think I have ever had in this crappy chemo-schmemo world – what a total crock of bollocks it all added up to be, not to put it too finely. I'll try not to waffle (anger and annoyance do tend to make me bang on) but in a nutshell…
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So Much in Just A Few Days
Cor, where to start with it all? Maybe with the one little bit of good news – my PP score has dropped from 6 to 4 from the first cycle of chemo treatment. Which, ordinarily, would have me jumping for joy, but its become so much less the point of focus that it was kind…
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The Fajita Fairies
This Thurs saw the arrival of nieces 1 and 2 (or Jess and Grace as they are alternatively known) magically appearing chez nous with all the ingredients for a marvellous chicken fajitas dinner. Plus their parentals Rick & Heather who had made the effort to come from the depths of wildest Kent to join us…
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Greeners’ birthday night
Managed to loosen a pair of jeans off enough to nip out for Clare Greenwood's birthday supper the other night – and it was a corker. Very – very – bizarrely this place disrated as the No.5 restaurant in the whole of London (at the time of booking). It's called Holy Smoke – and it…
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A Tough Few Days
I can honestly say, I have never felt as ill as I do now. Its bloody terrifying as it can only go one of three ways 1 – I get better – now, wouldn't that be nice 2 – I stay the same – probably the least likely, but possible I guess 3 – I…
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Shoulder Bloke
Saw Duncan Tennent the shoulder bloke last night at St Anthony's in Cheam, seemed a decent chap. The irony that for the past 15 months at least I have not been able to carry my own arms around with me, as just having them swinging at my sides cases great shoulder pain, is that now…
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Heart, lungs or who knows what?
Had a really good 'consult' with Charlotte Rayner yesterday, who is the chest expert at Parkside. As the heart chap at St George's has basically given up, she is now charged with trying to work out why I: have so little overall energy can;t all for more than a few yards without getting very breathless…