3 Too Many

“I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once!” – Unknown

Happy Birthday Jacob!

Bloody restless sleep – I hate them.  Surely there is a better way to suffer than all this crap I seem to get added to.  Feeling lousy as too.  It is getting tougher as the days go on.  Oh well 2 more nights of it then this round is done until 8 October.  That date seems way to soon already.  Get woken by Jacob – the birthday boy – coming in looking for presents.  Lachlan comes in next so get out his goodies.  Surprised the whole of Christchurch didn’t hear his squeal when he opened the iPod – I know he is joining the Apple cult – hopefully it is the first and last Apple thing I will buy him.  Surprised he hasn’t asked for an iPhone 5 yet!  Anyway he is very excited and I’m going to do my best to help make it as fun as possible.

Get up and hobble downstairs.  Have my breakfast cocktail but no food as feeling really sickly.  Go and have a shower to see if that helps – nope.  Email work to say I won’t be there today.  Say goodbye to the family and go upstairs and lay down again.  Lay there for a bit feeling very sorry for myself.  Manage to get up and go back downstairs – this was going to be a pattern for the day – upstairs then back down.  Very restless.

Can’t manage lunch so have a glass of water and guess what – a lay down.  Wake up suddenly reaching and make a fast path to the bathroom.  Hell’s bells I’m now allergic to water!!!  Nice way to make yourself feel really lousy, empty your stomach when you are already out of energy and are flat.  Seem to have hit rock bottom and started digging further.  Need to shake the vomiting bit before tonight as I need to hold down my Chemo drugs.

Jacob gets home and we setup his iPod for him.  I think I just discovered the most expensive part of him owning a device like this – the music and the app purchases for it. Sue gets home and calls the Oncology department to talk to them about my throwing up.  If I haven’t improved, as in able to hold fluids down or are still throwing up anyway before Chemo tonight then I am to head to A&E and get checked into the hospital.  Else if I can hold down the Chemo but are no better by morning then it will be a day visit to the Hospital.  Either way it ends with me in that place!  The hospital that is.

Bit of a short and sweet blog tonight – sorry but not in a good way and need to look after my health as a priority.  Hope everyone else has had a better day than me.  Take care and stay safe.

Kia Kaha.