Mission control restarted the count today and finally I am now having the first chemo delivered, this first one (yours Gerry for one day only) has made me turn quite pink so the nurse has put it on hold while checking with the doctor as I type this. Technology den is working quite well with the blog, skype emails and text messaging all keeping me busy as I wait for the chemo, messages and blog posts will be much appreciated over the next few weeks, when I am well enough to read and reply. I am trying to think of the chemo not as evil but as killing the cancer with my visualisation meditations - I do that for a while but it sends me to sleep so I have switched to Bruce Springstein to keep me awake. Pins and needles in my lips are the next interesting side effect so doctor is back!
Ok going to bail out of this just now, things are underway, and white coated people want to do stuff to me.......
Back again, Lee has been in since the doctors with Poppy and Holly, so I chatted to them for about 10min but slipped Lee a note to cut it short as the side effects were kicking in so they have gone off waving and smiling. We thought we would let them see the room when I still have my immune system (it takes about 5 days to crash it) from here on in we can then use the webcam as they will not be allowed to visit, at least for a few weeks.
I am feeling a bit better todays concoction is BCNU aka Carmustine http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=4238 so the pinkness, headache and other effects are all as expected. I am definatily feeling it but not in any distress, just kind of detachedly (is that a word?) observing symptoms as they form. I think chilling out on the bed watching TV for the next few hours is the order of the day now, House and Question time both to look forward too tonight.
Cheers
Gerry
4 comments:
good luck Gerry on your journey to good health, I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
Hi Philip,
I think home SKYPE name is mulliganhome and the name in hospital is predictably mulliganhomehospital. In any case you can search by the email mulliganhome@blueyonder.co.uk. Let me know your skype name on text and I will look you up.
Great news on Matthew's selection for the U12 squad thats a really cool result, did you finally decide on St Pats for him?
As Kenny would say my "wittering" gets worse as I get nervous, henct the dawn stuff, but now I am in hospital I feel fine. The stuff they gave me yesterday is apparently dervived from mustard gas, yikes.
I am quite enjoying my own room as it means I have speakers for internet radio or music which I find quite conforting to have in the background, in the public wards I had to wear headphones.
We have restored the Eggorian virus as requested.
The Eggorians are an interesting race. They are the spooky bald headed beings that are seen at the beginning of Star Strek (Original Series). Many people assume they are fictional, but in fact a group crashed in the desert in 1967, and have been held on a U.S. Airbase in Nevada ever since. It is a source of some frustration to us here at Blog-guard.com that the CIA allow them internet access.
Ground Control to Major Mullah: Glad to hear that someone unearthed a match to light your rocket.
"We choose to go to the moon...not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our abilities and skills; because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept; one we are unwilling to postpone; and one which we intend to win." (JFK, May 1961)
In May 1961, only one American had ever been in space, on a 15-minute sub orbital flight. Within days, Kennedy took the decision to aim for the moon. 400,000 people were to work on Project Apollo.
On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to set foot on it. When they arrived safely back on earth, they had completed a round trip of almost half a million miles.
Mullah, no doubt you're going to see the dark side of the moon on your voyage and at times earth will appear very small and fragile. But, your ground crew have planned your return.
We look forward to the completion of your mission and your safe splashdown. Just remember not to blow the bolts on the hatch too early.
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