Sunday 26th July 2009

Chemo Cycle 2 Day 7

Hi All,

This cycle is going in a similar way to the last - a few bouts of sickness due to overeating as per usual, but no nausea and no ulcers.

The leg joint pains are back but less intense than last time, or maybe this is to do with the fact that I've been taking the tramadol at night as a pre-emptive. Otherwise pretty uneventful overall so far.

Spent the day at the party yesterday in lovely weather. Considering all last week was wet, and today was wet, it was an unbelievable window of opportunity and absolute perfect timing.

The new band played our first ever set and we were very well received. We actually never timed our set when rehearsing and it ended up being well over an hour, maybe closer to an hour and a half, so I was absolutely knackered by the end of it. This connected with not getting to bed until 1am and getting up at 9am this morning means that I'm pretty exhausted today and looking forward to a long sleep tonight, but it was a great day and worth it - well done to Colin and Nova for a great day - difficult to congratulate them on their 40th birthdays as one was in April and the other is not for two weeks, but as a symbolic 40th birthday party it was excellent!

Nice also to see some of the neighbours this afternoon for a short while with their gorgeously exuberant labrador puppy, Indie - if only I had a small amount of her energy these days!

That'll do for now - its time for a good sleep - but if I get a chance over the next day or so, I'll post a bit of video of the band if I can (it seems the blog has the ability, I'll just have to work out the technology! :)

See you soon - now going into hibernation for my second "infection risk week" - see you on the other side!

Cheers,

C x