Thankfully I am coming up for air after chemo 3 and just about begining to feel normal, the last couple of days were a bit of a trip all round. However I woke up this morning to a blue, blue sky without any clouds (like you get in the US all the time, but almost never in Scotland) and a similiar bright mood of relief in my head and my stomach.
Last night I spoke to my brother Philip and he is coming over from Ireland with Debbie for lunch Saturday (on his way to a party in Glasgow) so that plus some other social plans on Friday are giving me some good things to look forward to, we will probably head up to Lee's parents in Aberdeen for the first part of easter week before I have to come back for all the usual tests and injections leading up to chemo 4. We like going to the cottage to replenish spiritual energy, I guess in the USA you would call it a cabin, it is deep in the woods and a safe haven for the girls to run and skip and scare deer. Because of it, and the wildlife around it Lee's mum is called "squirrel granma" in our house.
I walked down to the local shop for crossants first thing this morning, holly calls them "horns" because of the shape, I really like that aspect of living in the city when you can "nip out" for fresh coffee or pasteries (or anything in this neighbourhood from ceramic pots to chinese fish shops). So today will be spent looking after Holly, currently building her train set round my desk, catching up on a mass of red emails, and then chatting to some colleagues in Arizona in the afternoon where its 2.30am at the moment !
One of my American colleagues emailed me a funny story about the "f" word which one of her childeren thought was "fart", it remined me of living in the mid west when I would replace the f word with "oh really" and it seemed to go down just about right. The US is a surprisingly polite culture despite what the rest of the world sees on TV and has a majority of really nice people tucked in amoung what can be a loud and macho minority.
Anyway I am off to brew my first and only coffee of the day, which I have not thankfully lost the taste for. Hope your day is on the up and up as well
Cheers
Gerry
2 comments:
Glad to hear the positive notes - like sunny blue skies, and coffee and looking forward to being at Sylvia's cottage............. hope the weather's kind to you all there!
The Middletons
Hey Bill good to see you on the board, the funny thing was the booth in the resturant when I first told some of the guys in EC that story, just as I finished they all in unison said "oh really" to which I retorted "told you so". Talked today to our virgin Walleye boy who wanted to know how to be cabin boy. My advice was drink like a fish from now till then to get practice and only Hanson and Sylvester will bury you, sneak in water occasionally and pretend its gin, do not drop Hansons fish (sorry, sorry Dave I am an idiot I know it was the biggest fish we ever saw thats why it could flip out of the net so well but I still feel guilt four years later). Otherwise go with the flow and enjoy the sunsets and Tai Chi to Texas on the upper deck
So Jealous so so Jealous, have some for me!
Gerry
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