3 Too Many

Day 16 of 23 treatment free.

“Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still” – Lou Erickso

Do I start with yesterday?  Well a 6am awakening and head is sore but doze off again until about 7am. Downstairs to make a cuppa tea and see if the pain will just die down.  Have a hot shower which sort of helps.  Give in and take some of the strong pain killers (already had 2 the night before when the pain was building up).  Then head to work.  The pain sort of eases a bit.  Then kicks in with a vengeance about an hour later.  Take a Panadol which sort of lasts about 15mins.  Eventually get Sue to come and get me and take me home.  Pack a bag ready for hospital and head off there – again Get dosed up on Panadol, codeine and high strength pain killers – guess one is going to work!  Feel comfortably numb and sleep on and off.  The Oncology doctor comes down and talks to us about what could be happening and that he is sending me for a CT Scan to see what is happening as it is the second time in 10 days I have been in there for the same issues.  The scan comes back semi positive but I am going to have an MRI scan done in the next couple of days to get a better / clearer image of the tumours.  Finally released about 7pm for home – so yay no overnighter! Take another high strength pain-killer, then wait until about 11:30 before taking another.  Knocks me out for the night.  The down side of this head pain is I am now on more bloody steroids!!

On to today.  Wake about 6am again, then go back to sleep until 7am, then fall asleep again until about 8:00 ish and let work know that I’m not in today. Then go back to sleep for about an hour.  Then downstairs for some pain killers and a cuppa tea – yummy breakfast eh!  Still have a head ache but far less that yesterday.  Take it easy all morning and have my minder home with me to make sure I don’t fall over and do the funky chicken.  Nice to have lovely company (have to say that or I’ll get hurt badly) – oh bugger she’ll read this! It’s going to hurt more now. Suggest we go get some lunch not that I am up to eating anything. Have a nice outing to the Turkish restaurant in Addington and a catch up over lunch. Then head home to rest up.  Boys get home then Lachie gets ready for footy practice.  We go and do the grocery shopping then while Lachie has practice.

Home then for dinner, and to do the blog.  Fridge and Nutty turn up briefly on their way to Dodgeball, to help put up the clothes dryer – appreciate the help.  Thanks. Dinner not sitting well Oh well.  Dad calls to see how I am going.  Going to pain-killer up soon then probably hit the sack as tired and the steroids will probably do their thing and mess up the sleep and give me a wired brain again.  So broken sleep coming up   Take care out there and hope you’ve had a good day/arvo/evening all.

Kia Kaha.