{"id":872,"date":"2016-03-08T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/much-better-day-today\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T18:34:13","slug":"much-better-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/much-better-day-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Better Day Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha &#8211; 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 &#39;mega steroid&#39; tab that Prof has prescribed to see if it might get some of my inflammation under control.<\/p>\n<p>Result? I have been an active girl all day, chatting and gabbling like a bipolar bod on their &#39;up&#39; day. Steroids turn you nutty.<\/p>\n<p>Have had a totally ludicrous scan on my abdomen (yes virtually the only place on my entire body that doesn&#39;t hurt in any way, but mine not to reason why, just to lie there going &#39;breathe in&#8230;. hold your breath.. breathe normally&#39;) for an hour today. Then a &#39;walking oxygen test&#39; with the physio lady to see if I can walk further\/more easily with or without oxygen &#8211; but as usual the scores were so counter-intuitive (i.e. did &#39;better&#39; with no oxygen and also managed to walk quite a way with no trouble at all &#8211; SO annoying when on every other day I am in such schtuck &#8211; and can never replicate it for anyone with a nurses uniform on &#8211; grrr!)<\/p>\n<p>Eventually escaped and had v nice cup of tea and half a scotch egg with some lardy pie that Janine had liberated from Borough Market &#8211; yum, yum, yum. Good effort Mrs Capon.<\/p>\n<p>Told her the delightful story of how Scrumpy has learned to steal from the coffee table &#8211; and managed to get the lid off the easter egg box that James and Dominic had so kindly sent from NZ (via M&amp;S) &#8211; and had scoffed loads of the not-good-for-dogs choc eggs while I was out yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God for small mercies &#8211; Mr H was the first person down this morning at 6am (it has been me on every single day I think for the last 2 months, as I am always awake &#8211; but not today tee hee) &#8211; and was greeted by 20 piles of dog poo across the kitchen with some sparkling egg wrap glinting cheekily through&#8230; lots of Daddy clearing up required, before tea was made (I do hope he washed his hands before he then made the tea..)<\/p>\n<p>No more leaving things on that table for us &#8211; she is a complete shameless thief. Her furriness even had a go at a parcel with 4 pairs of new pants in it for me that got delivered today &#8211; got right through to the final layer of wrap before she was caught. I hate think how many of those she would have noshed if I had;t spotted her in time&#8230; That darn dawg&#8230;. Bleddy well eats anything, food or not.<\/p>\n<p>So while today was good, I am now bricking it about this bloody right heart catheterisation tomorrow &#8211; I&#39;ll have a word about the inadequate local anaesthetic last time and hope to hell they whack some more in, so I don&#39;t bawl all the way through this one, like I did with the angiogram.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s hoping&#8230;. ever the optimist but it does take a bit of a bashing these days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Will let you know how it goes &#8211; and more importantly. if we hear anything significant from either the bone biopsy last week or this nasty test tomorrow, that can point us in a definite direction (beyond the one marked &#39;Insanity Lies This Way, You Fat Knacker&#39; that I am currently following..)&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s to some very small neck tubes and an awful lot of anaesthetic&#8230; fingers crossed x&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha &#8211; 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 &#39;mega steroid&#39; tab that Prof has prescribed to see if it might get some of my inflammation under control. 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