Friday night ....

Sat at Gatwick airport in the departure lounge at the gate, and have just heard over the tannoy that the flight is delayed ..... You just don't want to hear that! Guess it could be worse, the flight could have been cancelled , and judging by the amount of people crammed in here, that would have been disastrous .

My fantastic blog post that I wrote in the week, got 'lost', and that too was annoying, especially after the title managed to get posted. So as I now have at least another 40 minutes wait, I thought I'd use this time to do a catch up, even if I can't post until I'm back on the rock.

I'm pleased that this first week has gone ok, I've managed to remember to take my anti - sickness on four out of the five days pre treatment , and now taking another tablet to form a lining in my stomach. As I have been feeling a little queasy at various points throughout the day, this is not a bad idea.

I did say to the radiologist on Wednesday that I felt a little tired, to which he nodded sagely and said " I'm afraid that's part of the side effects of the treatment" I didn't like to say I think that actually it's the thirty lengths swim and Pilates class I did this morning!

I turned up at the sports centre yesterday just before 9:30am with the sole idea to maybe have a gentle swim and then go and find the instructor at the gym so he can show me how some of the equipment works. But, the receptionist at the centre who is a lovely lady but of Chinese ethnicity and therefore sometimes a little difficult to understand gabbled at me and before I knew where I was I had signed up for a 'step' class.

I haven't done Step since the 1980's when sweatbands and leg warmers were compulsory . This however, turned out to be a class like no other.
A very toned fit instructor barked out orders over the microphone, doing set pieces, turning around , up, down, and then we had to lie down on the said Step and lift weights above our heads. Tummy tucks, leg raises, then up again , more routines. Suddenly the smoke alarm goes off, a false alarm but it gave us ( me?) a five minute reprieve.

This morning I can certainly feel the effects of the class, and whilst waiting to meet my big bro for a cup of tea ( just before his conference ) I was surreptitiously doing a few calf stretches in the station !

It helped that I had my friend Agi with me on the flight back ( she had decided to come home this weekend as her radiotherapy machine had broken so she couldn't have her treatment, annoying as that day gets tagged onto the end of her six week stint. )

It was so lovely to be greeted by husband and daughter, with the added bonus of supper cooked by them. It's nice to be home ......



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