3 Too Many

T Day = 26 (Adjuvant chemoradiation) – 10 Radiation & 17 Chemo to go this round.

Another crappy sleep – awake from 3am with pain & discomfort – bugger it!!  Manage to drift to sleep on and off till about 4:30ish  then give in to the heart burn pain and aching joints – downstairs for painkillers. Make a warm water and baking soda drink for the heart burn, and a cuppa tea for  bit later and dose up on painkillers then do the stretches the Physio gave me to easy the joint pains – lot on in the house at 4:30!  Most people sleep – not me!  Sort out my meds for the day – pretty much a routine now.   Painkillers start working about 5am thankfully – as walking around like a little old man.  Log on to work and check changes that had asked to be done had happened – all good – fantastic.  Work on clearing out old emails too. 

Make it to 7am and roust the boys. Then hit the shower myself as the Chemo will be delivering its punches soon and the warm water definitely helps.  The nausea is now starting to kick in earlier as feel sick already Manage to scoff down a piece of toast – tum seems to accept a piece of toast so happy about that.  Then off out the door with Joh as the driver today – we’re dropping off the boys off first then off to zapping at 9am.  The mask is very tight again today – and they are planning on another CT scan as the image yesterday wasn’t quite right apparently.  Ah  that means another 10-15 mins in the mask! Manage to stay calm and breathe more so not to bad today – hopefully on Monday it’ll be even better.

Finally leave treatment and head to Cafe Raeward to meet Jono and Bernard for brekky.  Joins us then drops us down at Logistics where we are spending the day taking out the last bits of equipment that are left around the Logistics site that need to go into the new building or dismantled and stored.  Make s nice change to do something different and not be staring at a screen.  Mange to hang on till 2:30pm then Joh picks me up and we head for home picking up Jacob along the way and also go via the chemist to collect my next lot of Chemo drugs for the week.

Get home then turn around and off to the Cancer Society as the boys and I and another Cancer patient and her 2 kids are going to have our pics taken handing over the cheque to the Cancer Society from What Now.  Traffic is diabolical!! Finally get there, so all good.  Smile nicely too – hate having my pic taken!  Will watch out for the pic and where it is published.  Home then via the supermarket to get bits for tea.

Get home and sit down – manage to fall asleep for about 2 hours in front of the TV.  Must have needed it.  Wake up to Jacob rubbing my head and telling me my hair feels like grip tape that they use on their scooters!  Nice! Tea is also ready so scoff that down then watch some TV.  Gat a call from Graeme (good mate) and have a fat chat with him about nothing much – it was great!  Then blog time.

It is now 12:35 and finally finishing it off.  Just tried now so need to head to bed – done M&D time already too – might do painkillers now to see if I can sleep till 5:50am.

Take care out there all.

Kia Kaha