3 Too Many

T Day = 30 (Adjuvant chemoradiation) – 9 Radiation & 13 Chemo to go this round.

Another fairly good sleep – woke a coupe of times but went back to sleep till 5:45.  Up and into the routine for the day – drugs at 6am to start the day. Chemo at 7am, anti – seizure & steroid at 8 –  it goes on.  Decide that seen as I am carrying this extra weight and it’s not going to run away on its own, I head to the gym for a light to medium workout – I know they said don’t do it but I need to do something  – so manage close to 25 mins in there then get on the spin bike for a 4km ride.  Pain levels aren’t registering even yet – so that is good.

Get on with some work and then it’s time to head to today’s zapping scheduled for 11:10. Get there and find they are running behind as one of the other machines have suffered a breakdown so they are shuffling patients around.  They get to me 30 minutes late.  But on the good side they have thought about yesterdays issues and have some spacers about 2mm high that go at the bottom of the clips which seems to work wonders. – I can breathe!!  But on the downside as they have altered the alignment of the mask they have to do another TC scan to check the reference point – so again it slows it down, but as I can breathe all is good.  Finally leave about 12:15 and head upstairs to see Sarah (little sister)  as she has been admitted to hospital with an infection in her foot.  Have a quick catch up with her and Magenta’s there too.  Was nice to see you both – hope you get well soon.

Time to duck home to make a sandwich for lunch then back to the hospital for the meeting with the radiation specialist doctor. He is happy with how it is tracking and how everything is progressing so happy too.  He has suggested to drop the steroids to 1 tablet a day – that’s a quarter of what I was on 2 weeks ago.  Also ask him about some new surgery technique that they use Gamma Radiation to ‘cut away the tumor. Mor on this later.  But he says that basically because of the type of tumor I have that it is not that easy.  Though he did say that after all the treatment there might be some clarity in how the ones I have attach to the good brain cells then if there is a clearer line they maybe able to do something with it.

Off then to get the boys from school as they have a haircut, immunisation shots then to footy practice – so busy.  I help out with Jacobs practice and the back line in particular as they are not playing well. All good as I give them a rev up and tell them to get on with it.  Home then for tea  – just as it starts to rain – perfect timing!

Sit down to blog – struggling as keep falling asleep   I have already deleted half the blog once! – doze off and fingers on random keys on the keyboard do it!  So I’m thinking M&D time early today then head to bed as I am falling asleep constantly now!

Rug up warm or batten down the hatches where ever in NZ you’re reading from – those in other locales enjoy and let’s be careful out there.

Kia Kaha.