By Gillian When Chris posted last on Thursday afternoon, things were looking up and he was feeling quite a bit better. Unfortunately, that didn’t last. He threw up Thursday dinner, Friday breakfast and dinner, and breakfast and mid-afternoon tea today. He’s spent almost all day today in bed feeling ghastly, though he did get up […]
By Gillian Thanks to everyone who has commented here or spoken to me at work to hope that Chris will start feeling less grotty soon. We hope so too. He has been feeling sick pretty much all the time for the past week, and his anti-emetic drugs really aren’t working any more. He’s really struggling […]
By Gillian We’re determined to try to do interesting things this summer while we can, rather than sitting at home and feeling sorry for ourselves. There is a very good local theatre in Malvern and we are making a point of going there once a month or so. Chris isn’t really up to going out […]
By Gillian So Tuesday night was pretty grotty. The next day, Wednesday, I was due to pitch some ideas to one of our major customers at our company headquarters, which is several hours away down the motorway. It was an important meeting, on a project I have been leading for the last few years, and […]
By Gillian Chris had a dose of palliative radiotherapy yesterday afternoon, on the L1 vertebra where he has a tumour. That’s about at the level of his diaphragm, so the radiation went right through his digestive system from back to front. The beneficial effects of the radiation continue for about 6 weeks. However, the unpleasant […]
By Gillian This weekend, we had planned to be at a garden party and dance at the house of a friend’s parents, in London. We went this time last year and both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves – even Chris danced which is not something he does often! This year, we received the invitation several months ago, […]
By Gillian Last weekend, while we were staying with my parents for some much-needed R&R, we visited a university friend of Christopher’s one day for lunch. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves chatting, and Gill cooked us all a delicious chicken risotto and an incredibly rich and gooey chocolate pudding. The cookbook she was using was Nigel […]
By Gillian You remember that cartoon with the roadrunner who always outsmarted the coyote? Well, I feel like the latter right now – as if I’ve been running & running and now I’ve run right off the edge of the adrenaline cliff. I’ve looked down and am standing on thin air….. I’d expected that now […]
By Gillian Today we had lunch with Christopher’s sister, Sophie. We’ve not seen her for some time, and it was really good to catch up with her. She lives the other end of the country, so we met somewhere in the middle in a hotel just off the motorway. The food was nothing special, and […]
By Gillian So yesterday we handed back the Walkmed pump that Chris has been umbilically attached to since January. And now that it’s gone, it’s a huge relief to both of us. The pump was about half the size of a paperback book, and came in a black padded “bum bag” that Chris kept around […]
