Tuesday 15th January

Tuesday 15^th January

I’m not sure what frame of mind I’ve actually been in today, a bit of a conflict between the ‘glow’ of winning the badminton tournament last night, lack of sleep, and the anxiety of the CT scan!

Started the day with a dog ‘march’ around the fields, unusually with my ipod plugged in, partly to keep my ears warm, but primarily to stop me thinking!! The dog gave me a few strange looks when I occasionally burst into song!

Quick change and back out to my Zumba class, first one of the term and a bit of a shock to the system, but a great distraction. One slight drawback, I needed to drink copious amounts of liquid pre scan, not good when you’re busy doing high energy salsa and merengue!

Another lightening shower/change and drink before going to hospital. Amazingly no queue and no wait, however the poor nurse thought she’d just cannulate me quickly to help out as my veins looked good. Tried the right arm, the vein ‘disappeared’ (apparently this can happen with ‘overuse’ and frankly I’m not surprised the amount of abuse my veins have already had). So she tried the left arm, and the needle bent- I know this as she showed it to me as she pulled it out! 

She admitted defeat, and was hugely apologetic; we had a laugh about it… (It’s good to laugh, my daughter tweeted a ‘fact’ that “Laughter increases the activity of antibodies in the body by 20%, helping destroy viruses and tumor cells.”) Anyway eventually had the cannula in my hand and had the scan, a bit uncomfortable but otherwise fine.

Raced off to work and became totally absorbed in small children and art activities- once again a great distraction, didn’t get home until 4.30pm. So another change of clothes and speedily put together a pasta bake that I’d half made at 8am this morning- left the house at 5.40pm to go to Macmillan at the lido.

I had a notice come through the post about an informal meeting tonight about the possibility of setting up a support group for ladies with ‘gynaecological cancers’. I think it’s a very good idea, for many reasons. (Big thanks to hubby who came and gave valuable input on his role as partner/carer).

Didn’t get home too late, so how come it is now nearly 11.30pm and I wanted an early night!

Lastly many thanks for the numerous texts and well wishes I received today regarding the scan- I will know the results late Thursday afternoon…..

Oh, and one last thing a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Mrs Jdlh, who had a lovely photo in last night’s JEP- back wearing the nurses uniform and on the ward already!!