Do You Know The Muffin Man? It's ME!

Unbelievable – actually managed to eat English muffins for breakfast, pizza at lunchtime and curry tonight! I needed a glass of water but no choking, spluttering or gagging. This is really encouraging because my next scan is not until 25th March and in the meantime the doctors have said that they’ll use symptoms to monitor progress. As swallowing difficulties are my only symptom this bodes well! Also today has been the first day I’ve not felt like ‘hitting the sack’ at by 6.00 p.m. so should make it to the youth group’s pancake party (and might even manage a pancake).

Seriously the week following the intravenous stuff was harder than I expected, the tiredness is the strangest thing for someone who normally managed on 5 hours a night. It’s now 12 hours every night and a few more during the day if poss. I have resisted the strange allure of peasanty day time TV (so far!).

I went to see Clarrissa Robinson yesterday. She is a professional councillor I visited a year or two back during a ‘wobbly patch’ (stress related). She specialises in counselling the ill and works a lot with a local hospice, she’s also been through cancer herself. She’s a fantastic listener; it helps me a lot.

Had some great chats with friends tonight Rachel Chiou, Stuart Simms and Nick Hearn . Rachel and Tony popped in this afternoon but I had nipped out to help Teresa at the office with some new computers for the tutoring so missed them.

Today has been the first day on no chemo tablets, I must admit I’m looking forward to a week off.

In signing off I was sent a great book by the folks at ‘Word of Life' Church Great Barford. It’s called ‘What Cancer Cannot Do’… I’ll highlight some of the chapter headings tomorrow.

God Bless. Pancakes here I come.