One Day at a Time: Saturday.....13th September 2014....

Today has been fine...but in reality it will have to go down as one of those days when we went backwards and not forward....but again, not seriously....yet. As I write we have X factor on the TV...why?...nobody's watching it...and Dad's Army on the other side....surely there's better television on a Saturday night for us in this day and age... I suppose that (in this day and age) we should be looking at our mobile devices and putting the TV in the bin....I digress.

We started off well....I took Tim to the airport for 8...came home...walked the dog while Bex went to retrieve Jill from the hospital. We all got back roughly at 11 (I had been at Archirondel) and Jill was on fine form. Aunty SC was here doing an impression of our cleaner....sorting out flowers, fruit, fridges...just about anything, as long as it started with a F.....and then she hoovered, but our suspicion was that she was trying to fill time while she was waiting for the washing to finish so she could iron clothes...have you EVER known anyone who enjoys ironing? well SC does...she loves it.....if you have some ironing and are willing to pay then I will start a business and hire out her ironing services. We are really really grateful...specially us boys.... ASC did two jobs really...did the chores AND kept Jill amused for a few hours....the latter being by far the most important.

After lunch Bex went with ASC to get medicine from the hospital and I filled in some details for our trip to London, and then went to three meetings (as we are now away on Monday early I have to get some important things completed, and quick!) and when I got back at 7 Dan was back (+1) eating supper after another not-so-smooth day at sea....looks like tomorrow might be a complete cancel...quite breezy. Anyway, by this time Jill was just starting to feel a little uncomfortable again.....the fluid that had been taken off is either starting to be replaced and/or she has also been eating and drinking again.....all in all I think that we will call the hospital again in the morning....I am NOT allowing her to get into difficulties Sunday evening and I am even more NOT getting to hospital early Monday and finding that we can't fly because she needs to have fluid drained.

We have another fantastic selection of new drugs to administer this evening.... I suggested that we could probably start a pharmacy, with flowers and fruit on the side....we have been so fortunate to receive gifts from so many.

As I type we are just the two of us here, Jill and I, rattling around in our big house. Tom is at a friends working on some Hitech project.....Jack is still at Lessay Faire (I think back soon)....Dan is now chillin', playing computer games upstairs with mates in the loft and Bex has gone to a barn dance at the Public Hall (bit rude to call the Hall a barn....but it does need a major refurb sometime....another project for the next session if I get re-elected) Some of Dan's mates have promised to be down soon and eat some of the food in the fridge...sometimes it feels like we have a family of 10 or 11, and not 6. In all seriousness though, we are always pleased to see the very and varied friends that our kids bring home....some of them are almost like additional family members....and sometimes I think that that's the secret of staying positive....surrounding yourself with positive young people keeps us sane (in a mad sort of way) ...despite shouting at them a lot, we wouldn't be without any of them......long may we continue to have a house full of not-quite-so-young-now people.

STOP PRESS....Jill has agreed (for a large fee) to write just a very few words for our reader this evening.....how special we all feel....come on then....see if you can still push these keys....as we've said in the past....all the right letters but just not quite in the right order....let's see how she does people....

Slightly unfair as I've just had my heavy duty (controlled) drugs, and while they do actually relieve pain, they make me a little 'spaced out', so thought i'd just post a few photos after I'd written a few lines.

Within a very short space of time after the two liters of fluid had been taken out yesterday, I felt a hundred times better, no pain, much more mobile ( able to actually sit up ) and best of all hungry!
Not a brilliant night at hospital, but still no pain, and what a blessed relief, I felt i could deal with anything, such a contrast to the misery of constant pain and discomfort that has haunted me over the last two weeks. With Bex driving me home, I suddenly felt angry, cross that the Marsden had not had the foresight to at least Xray me and see what was going on before i left, and led me to believe it was a 'bowel' issue. Anyway, there is no point looking back, what's happened has happened, just feel annoyed i've had two weeks of total RUBBISH!!! Feel better I've got that off my chest, and now for a few pics of happy times spent with my lovely brothers!!

Bex not impressed with Uncle Tim cuddles.....!

Last walk I managed down to flicquet on Thursday morning......

Family tucking into one of the many meals provided by friends- (LT and AH and SC and Pdlh)!

Can't leave out my sister who travelled down to London for the day to see me.... I am lucky to have such caring siblings ( I'm the younger prettier one... obviously!)

Finally, this is IMPORTANT!! Please keep the 24th September (next Wednesday morning) free, you are all invited to the squash and racquetball club in St Clement (next to Partners). My friends are holding a Macmillan coffee morning down there. Not only coffee but loads of cakes too- and if you fancy a free taster of racquetball get there about 9:30am, dont worry its not compulsory! Just turn up at 10:30am and enjoy the cakes! I am really hoping that I can make it, and not be stuck at the Marsden or sitting in Oncology having chemo, both options viable I'm afraid.