Wednesday 29th August

Wednesday 29^th August

Other than my early morning ‘wake  up call,’  I had an excellent start to the day, two hours of superlative tennis plus, I came home with a HUGE fish Quiche and still warm homemade rock cakes!! Thanks AH , you should be on Masterchef, and a big thanks to SO and MP, who entertained me on and off the court! (BTW 6cm of Quiche left!!).

*BTW By the Way

Showered, lunch and headed into hospital ready for the ‘fuel up’ , had my lovely nurse HD,  it is going to be sad to lose her to the UK, but she will definitely better her career in the ‘move’ The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is located in Withington, Manchester, and is one of the largest cancer treatment centres in Europe. I wish her all the best, and I’m  quite sure she will come back and stun us all with her new found knowledge in the care and treatment in battling the disease. 

It was very quiet in oncology today only three of us and no visitors, so I was more than happy to read and sleep most of the time away. It’s becoming harder to find good veins as I do seem to have had rather a lot of Cannula’s fitted lately. Nurse KB had a ‘brainwave’ and queried the carboplatinum administration time span of an hour- suggesting 30minutes should be sufficient, she checked it out and Lo! A reduction of 30 minutes- so I left the ward at 3.45!

I came home to a tidy house- thanks DL, (partly because the ‘renegades’ had been trashing it all afternoon and ‘teasing the dog ‘mercilessly’) . With supper sorted and no visitors I was glad to have another hour doze on the sofa. 

Perked up after supper and ‘walked ‘Jessie in the field/meadow for 30 minutes before enjoying the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympics. (If you didn’t see ‘Best of Men’ iplayer it- worth watching)

"....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come."

Joey Reiman