That's what I can see out of the window - white clouds moving across a blue winter Brisbane sky ... (Well, I needed to find some sort of title and that was what came to mind, OK?!)
I guess it's time for the next update from me in my (very nice) hospital room ... There was huge excitement here yesterday as the previous evening (Friday) a local football hero has his knee quite badly injured in a game up north, and he turned up here (with accompanying TV and media scrum) to see the specialist, and presumably arrange for a(nother?) knee reconstruction later in the week! I'm not a follower of Rugby League - the only football I have even a passing interest in is soccer, and readers of my other blog will know that I do follow the cricket! in the summer. But that's a summer game ... Football just doesn't do it for me!
Of course, in most countries of the world, football == soccer. That's what they mean when they talk about football! But in Australia they developed variations on Rugby (Rugby League) and Irish football (Aussie Rules), so it's called soccer here!!
Why am I talking about football?!!!
Anyway - to my health situation! Turned out I actually finished the first lot of chemo on Friday. Since then I have been off the dreaded steroids - resulting in me sleeping for 9 hours last night, as opposed to 1-2 on the previous ones! But the steroids probably also kept me feeling a bit more 'up' than I was. Since then I have been pretty quiet, happy to sit in my room and play sudoku on the laptop, read emails, books etc. Not going wandering off downstairs or anything. The doctor says that although I won't get back to my regular energy level, it should even out a bit higher soon. I'm also less interested in eating, though maybe it's more the idea of eating, than eating. I look at what I've got and if/when I try then I can usually quite happily eat some of it. All that fluid weight has dropped off thank god!
Friends drop in and visit - luckily no more than 1-2 at a time. I couldn't cope with a roomfull that's for sure! John came round yesterday - he'd gone to my house to collect his wife's car, and supposedly to bring me some things from home but had left the keys in a different car! He told me a case of wine had been delivered which is a pleasant surprise! Someone who's going round today to water my plants will hopefully be able to take that inside ... (Thanks Georgina - I know you're reading this!!) John also brought me the Peace is Possible book to read which was great!
Anyway - that's it for now. more later ... :)
Sunday, July 15, 2007
white clouds in the sky
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3 comments:
interesting about the rugby! i played in college, i don't know whos rules. how long do you have to stay in the hospital for?
My treatment involves me being in hospital for 2 weeks, home for one week and then start again. 6 times ... Chemo is in the first 5 days, then it's a case of waiting for my white blood cells to drop (and risk of infection to rise), and then recover. Once they are OK again, then I can go home ... One of the (additional) reasons I'm kept in hospital for the 2nd week is because I live alone (with cat!) in the country about 45 minutes drive away from here. So if an infection happened in the 2nd week, I would be some distance from here and my doctor ... :)
I kind of feel safe doing it this way, even though I probably would have chosen to just be in hospital for 1 week if I'd been given the choice!!
And if you're English (or European) then you'd be playing regular Rugby! It's only Aussies and a few teams in northern England somewhere that play Rugby League. (Very boring I reckon!!)pal
Hello dear Susie,
Glad to hear that your sense of humour is still intact. Sorry I didnt write before you 'went in'. I was having my first holiday in 20 years and no internet or PC for a week. Never thought I could do it. It rained every day but I didnt care. East Sussex is lovely. Am watching your progress with much interest and wishing you all the best.
Many hugs from London
WendyM
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