True Colours

All is well here in Edinburgh, in fact better than well. Last night Poppy sang a solo verse of the song "True Colours" at the school concert in the Queens hall, no mike or amplification, just stood out at the front of the 30 strong choir and belted it out to an audience of hundreds. Hers was the only solo singing in the whole concert, and I was bursting with pride at her great voice but specially her confidence to preform like that. We stopped for celebratory ice creams and rang Lee, who was stuck in a meeting near Oxford, to share the good news as we walked back through the park. The whole show was pretty good, both Poppy and Holly had good parts in different choirs, so we all enjoyed the evening. My bald head does make me stand out, even more than in the past, so lots of parents and staff were enquiring after my health, which was nice, if a bit repetitive.

Health wise things are still trucking along very well, I saw Dr Scott yesterday and, after a through check over, she announced that she does not need to see me again for four weeks. She is still supportive of the exercise I am doing, and thinks that is helping boost my immune system. I am now up to 17km bike, 5km rowing and 50 laps of the pool each session which takes about two hours, then I treat myself to a big fruit smoothie and a good fresh made veg soup at the cafe on the way home. One thing which surprised me is that I stopped to talk to four doctors and nurses just walking through the hospital yesterday, which shows how much time I have spent there in the last year.

Dr Scott has sent in the request for the CAT scan to check that the cancer is gone, as far as they can tell anyway, so that should be in about 8 weeks time. She is very confident, based on the clean CAT and PET scans before the transplant, that the scan will be clean, I am a bit more nervous as thats what they said the last time! It will be good to get a clean scan under my belt before going back to work, after that its just healing time and fingers crossed for the future.

So all is well and a quiet weekend is planned to enable us to catch up on some housework, rest and garden projects, I hope your days are going just as smoothly!

Cheers

Gerry