What a week! I feel as though I have been vomiting all week, although I managed to avoid it on Friday morning, I have sacrificed my morning cup of tea every other day since Monday. I vomited twice this morning for good measure. It was so bad that I phoned the palliative care nurse to […]
The big event of the week for me was the radiotherapy to my back, while Gillian has been trying to keep her workload at a more sustainable level. Gillian’s manic period at work reached a peak on Wednesday this week, but fortunately she was still able to accompany me to Cheltenham where I had my […]
The past week seems to have been dominated by back-care and food, sometimes with friends. On Tuesday, despite a slightly dodgy start, I had a great time meeting friends in Ludlow, although my back paid for the fun during the whole of that evening. But it was definitely worth it. I’ve found it harder and […]
We’ve just got back from London, so this is going to be a short post, as there is plenty to do before heading off to bed. On Tuesday we went to a large local garden centre and bought some plants. We’ve been trying, with the help of a local gardening firm, to get the garden […]
There isn’t a lot to report this week, although I wouldn’t say that it has been especially quiet. I’ve returned from holiday, had lunch with my sister and discovered that radiotherapy is another, unorthodox, way to get a tan. Our holiday finished on Wednesday, and we came home by train in the early afternoon, arriving […]
What a busy week! I’ve been out visiting several sites, of which I’ll write more and show pictures later. I’ve had dinner with my father, and generally had a very good week. The drugs have been working extremely well this week. I’ve suffered hardly any pain now that I’m taking the Oxycontin as well as […]
It’s been another relatively quiet week, so this post will be quite short. The week started with a short outing to a local castle called Goodrich. We’ve been visiting it on and off for about 17 years now, so I know it quite well, and was happy to sit in the courtyard while Gillian clambered […]
On Tuesday this week Gillian had another birthday — tact prevents me from telling you which one — but we had a lovely lunch at a good local pub restaurant with some of her colleagues from work. It was a surprisingly jolly occasion, given all the stress at work recently. To celebrate in the evening […]
Once again no chemotherapy this week. Nevertheless it has been a fairly quiet week, where things of note included a CT scan, a trip to the theatre and another increase in the incidences of my back pain. The CT scan took place early in the morning, which meant that it was hard to get there […]
The main news of the week is that it seems likely that I have finished my chemotherapy, after five cycles instead of six. The decision taken on Wednesday was actually to take a fortnight’s break from the chemotherapy, including the 5-FU in the bag, and to wait until after we see the results of a […]
