Windy Wednesday

Those readers who live in the Channel Islands will understand this evening's blog title...come to think of it, so will anyone who lives in the UK. As I type the wind is trying it's best to rip the roof off the conservatory...and it will only get worse, peaking at 03:00 tomorrow morning at around Force 9 according to the lovely weather girl (who was stood, just, at the end of one of the piers down at the harbour to deliver the live forecast on the local TV News this evening)...and then slowly dropping off...but still pretty breezy for tomorrow. It's certainly one of those nights when you are pleased to have your boat well tied up in the marina...  Dan went to onshore lifeboat training again today, as this evening the crew have taken the boat to sea to "play" with the new electronics pack....a new direction finding system, interfaced over twin screens with radar and chartplotter...all very impressive...Dan certainly thinks it's "the business". Another new addition to the "tech" on the Lifeboat is the addition of AIS, a system that allows the position of the boat to be monitored remotely....the AIS system is also accessible on the internet, so we've been sitting in the kitchen watching the boat's progress around St. Catherine's Bay. They're back in now....the Inspector had apparently said that he wanted the boat put away by 21:00...a wise move.

There was some bad news for me this evening...I discovered a secretly hidden chocolate Father Christmas at the bottom of the cake/biscuit drawer. This is not good.....he has been transferred to the fridge to cool off (I love cold chocolate) ...and I have already reduced his height down to shoulder level. There'll be no standing on the scales tomorrow for me...or him for that matter..... the chances said Father Christmas surviving the evening do not look promising.

One of the reasons why I am getting away with stuffing chocy this evening is that "chemo girl" is out playing badminton....as you do....especially if you've just had chemo at the end of the afternoon. As Jill left I shouted to her to "BE CAREFUL"....I'm not sure if I meant to watch out driving in this weather or to watch out playing badminton so soon after being an hospital inpatient. There was no point in trying to stop her going.....best just make the most of a bad job and try to get her to behave while she's out. No doubt she'll post a few lines on her return....

Not much else to report...I had a long day of meetings, and another early start tomorrow...one good thing was that I managed smoked haddock and poached eggs for breakfast this morning....well, if you're being entertained at one of the Island's top hotels then it would be rude not to make the most of it!

A final thought is that Jack has left a note to say that all the chainsaws are sharpened and full of fuel...and out in the workshop ready to go. We hope we don't need them....but who knows what we might find when we wake up. I remember the night back in '87 when we woke up after the hurricane (I slept all the way through)...and it took Dad and I a couple of hours just to cut up the trees so we could drive the 20 or 30 yards to the main road. I spent two full weeks just cutting up trees after that night....we haven't had a weather forecasters telling is that we're NOT going to get a hurricane (remember Michael Fish)...so we should be fine.


I'm back!!

Summary of Jill's day
Cajoled Dan into walking Jess this morning, so I could be raring to go for racquetball at 9:30am...(mind you HE has told everyone that my Chemo is on Friday this week, and he thinks "i'm crying wolf anyway"..I keep going to hospital and not having it!!!)
Early lunch, and a surprise visitor SC from Gorey breezes in the door and steals the ironing!!!!

Late to chemo as bumped into neighbour whose partner is in HDU with severe chest pains (he is young(ish) and fit), so feel terrible for them both. All tests inconclusive so far, but he is in bad way.

Lovely nurse SD sorted me out today, we discussed possible veins to use, and she gave me a heatpad to warm them up, and was very gentle fitting the cannula, so all in all a positive experience today.

Of course I'm fueled up with steroids, so rather than bouncing off the walls at home, I thought I'd smash a few shuttles (actually I didn't play too well, but good fun anyway!)

Learn't something new about some side effects from Chemo, apparently the drugs can dry the body out, so in compensating it can overproduce fluid, which explains why I'm crying and blowing my nose a lot more than normal! Luckily I don't appear to be incontinent .......as yet anyway.....