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De To-Tally Tropical Taaaa-ste?
OK – own up, who was it? A spanking case of 24 lovely Diet Lilt cans made its way through the front door this afternoon, care of one of you very kind folks out there…. but I don't know quite who,…
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Rattly Breakfast
Thought you might like to see what goes in 'for breakfast' today, before the just-as-exciting bowl of Fruit & Fibre.. Yum, yum, yummedy-yum hey? Although the irony of the steroids (the pile of 10 small ones) is that I do now get…
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Sunday Update
Hello lovely people I am very excited this morning – I actually got 5 hours sleep last night!! Yes – me!! Really! And didn't spend a penny online shopping (mostly as I could;t remember my PIN for the card registered to my National Lottery account, as I got a sudden burst of 'let's play scratch…
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How Fast Things Change
God, it's not even a full week into treatment yet and already I feel like I've been sucked into a sausage machine that's changing me day by day. I already look different – partly the self-chosen shorter haircut, so it's easier to look after and less of a shock when my hair goes further into…
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Sad & Nice Sunday
So Sunday was a right old mix of things. For me, top of the list it was the day that Hawksey & I were supposed to be flying to Barbados for the start of our fantastic Caribbean holiday that we'd been waiting months for, and were so looking forward to. All the lovely things –…
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And so it begins….
That's it – I can't fob it off any longer. Today is the day that my remission is officially, well & truly and bloody annoyingly over. I am starting chemo again today, the beginning of what will be an 'interesting ride' – definitely some downs, and with any luck just maybe the odd 'up' to…
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Wednesday
Let's hope today pans out a bit better than Tuesday did. On Monday I managed to steel myself for the prospect of 'getting underway with it all' and Emma the nurse who is assigned to me said (after I'd been at PS for 5 bloody hours, jumping through the various hoops, without a word of…
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An Example Day in the Life of Parkside
So then, thought you might like to see what an example day at Parkside is like, albeit it slightly odd one as it's Day 1 of treatment (or was meant to be!) but here it comes: Busy session at Parkside today – just the 5.5 hours and some home faffing to be done as well:…
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Home Sweet Home
I'm baaaaaaaack!!!!! Think I slightly shocked the Parkside staff when I was up, dressed and sitting on my bed by 9am this morning, in a major effort to try and go watch the Aces hockey game at 10.30am. No perhaps not the most sensible thing to head from after back surgery the previous day, but…
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The Thursday Gubbins
Just a quickie to confirm that I am having Balloon Kyphoplasty (not Vertebroplasty) on my back tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. Involves a General anaesthetic while they also do an epidural and some biopsy – I didn't really ask what they were biopsy-ing as hope to be fully unaware of the entire thing. Not quite sure how…