Feel good - didn't know that I would yeah !

As the (probably hoplessly optimistic) title says I am actually feeling pretty good today, could be that I am still on a steriod high from the treatment and will crash over the next days but for today I have been to the cafe, two conference calls, multiple other calls and 20 or so emails all dispacted from the comfort of the sofa or bed with my cool new hands free bluetooth wireless headset. It plays me music or podcasts from Itunes and when the phone rings it switches to phone automatically without me needing to go near the computer or the phone, excellent ! My work computer is fully wireless as well so its no more stressful than reading a book for me to sit in bed and hammer this out, in fact it passes the time better. Felt good enough to walk to the school to get Holly today, it was such a fantastic blue sky cold winter day with no wind I could not bear to sit inside all day, felt a bit wobbly afterwards and retired under duvet but feeling better again now.

The funny thing is all of this is going on around scaffolding, demolition, cement mixing and brickwork as we knock our kitchen into the dining room and the dining room into the attic. The folks doing the job have been great, tidy and considerate, while we are camping in the other rooms. Hopefully major building works in the kitchen will be done by tomorrow and assembly of the new kitchen will start and take about a week or so before we have an operating kitchen. A few weeks later we should have intact and decorated walls in the dining room. That means mum will be camping with us when she is here for the next chemo on the 15th which should be fun ! .

I have made contact with a friend of a friend who is 2 months ahead of me on the same program with the same cancer, she reports feeling fine after the first chemo and then progressivily worse as later ones occur, the theory is that the chemo has plenty of cancer to get at in the first treatments so is soaked up quickly, but in later treatments when it is scavanging the residuals there is more to concentrate on creating symptoms. Baldyness is predicted after chemo 2 for the same reason. Just shows that everyone and every regime of chemo is different, I am just pleased this one went so well so far as a lot of other folks have the worst reaction to the first chemo. Step by step.

Cheers for today, enjoying all the comments and the family banter, keep it up !

Gerry