Category: July 2023
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Wednesday, 19 July 2023
I don’t take a blood pressure pill today and am not dizzy. Mum takes me to the Beachhaven lab to get my weekly blood tests. I forget my blood test request form so we have to go back home to get it. I blame chemo brain. Nowadays I seem to be unable to concentrate or…
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Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Still very dizzy today. I think I’ll mention it at my next chemo. Also extremely fatigued. This is the first time I would really say I have felt ill since my diagnosis. I hope it’s the blood pressure tablets or the chemo and not the cancer. I borrow a BP cuff from K and take…
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Monday, 17 July 2023
I wake with a feeling of dissatisfaction. No, it’s more than that. I’m pissed off. I’m sick of cancer, I hate Betty, I’m angry that my life has been destroyed. I feel like the hospital team have made the wrong choices for me and as a result I am heading further and further away from…
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Sunday, 16 July 2023
Susannah and I both lived in Kyoto, Japan for several years – it’s where we met in 2002. In Kyoto when guests overstay their welcome, a polite way to suggest that they leave is to offer them some green tea over rice, known as ochazuke. This morning we chat about hoping for positive change in my…
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Saturday, 15 July 2023
Today we juice and juice and juice – both K and Auntie J have dropped fruit and veg off to us so we have a ton to get through. These days I am feeling quite healthy, apart from the obvious illness that is. Susannah gets outside and attacks the 10ft high noxious plant at the…