3 Too Many

T Day = 18 (Adjuvant chemoradiation) – 16 Radiation & 24 Chemo to go this round.

Another – day and another good sleep – only woken once at 3:30 with bad chest pains. Head downstairs for painkillers and some baking soda in warm water –  good quick cure if you have chest pains, or indigestion badly (tastes like crap but it works).  Back to bed then to keep sleeping.  Next awaking is by the alarm clock at 5:50 – now that is something novel – haven’t done that in quite awhile.  Downstairs  – well not at a rushed speed as can hardly move! This is another lovely side effect of the steroids – the joint pain!  Get the meds for the day ready and down the first lot for the day as it is 6am.  One thing though – while it was a good sleep, I did have to smile as I woke a couple of times and the brain was going flat-out on things, but just turned over and went to sleep again.

On with the day – 7am Chemo drugs on board – and know the kidneys are going to get hit then in the next 20-30 minutes. Zapping is at 10:10 today – so Anna is my driver today.  Ready to roll early, and Anna, DJ & Ollie turn up right on 9:30.  Off to the hospital.  They drop me at the door – that’s guys!  I get thru the zapping earlier than expected but they have to do a CT scan (for their targeting of the beams and to make sure they are pointing at the right place) which adds about another 5-10 mins to the time I’m locked down for.  I manage to make it thru – then set off to walk to the new building – about 3.8km away.  It’ a nice day and a lovely walk – though some of the footpaths are still incredibly munted!  And drivers are in gaga land – as I use the cross signals at an intersection a van rolls thru against the red and nearly gets me – but doesn’t even realise what he’s done – even with me throwing hands in the air and verbalising to him that he has a head that resembles a part of his anatomy that he obviously has misplaced.  If there was a car coming then he might have got the messages from the mess.

Arrive at work and discover Nigel Bailey (NZ IT Boss) and Rainer Rhedey – GM of Infrastructure and Operations are visiting Christchurch today.  It was great to meet them and catch up with where things are at.  Nigel is staying for 4 days while the move to the new building happens over the weekend. 

Manage to struggle through the day till 2pm and get picked up.  Fading quickly though.  We stop by the chemist to get the next round of Chemo drugs.  And the repeats for everything I take – and it is a hell of a list!  Leave with my big bag of happy pills

Nap for about an hour – didn’t even hear anyone come home – must be tired.  Wake to find picklets for afternoon tea – yum!  Fossick around for a couple of hours doing chores, then tea – thanks for the lagsane  Roh – very nice!  Also apologies Jo Knudsen too – thank you for the Lucozade yesterday – needed a bottle of it today, so it is great timing.

Quite evening all in all, as to tried to do anything of note.  So going to hit the hay soon to try to get another good rest in.  So you know the process – M&D time folks.

Have a fantastic day/evening/morning/arvo folks.

Kia Kaha.