I've had two great weekends with my old school friends - the first one in Bristol with Katie, Claire, Gill and Sarah all lodging up the road in Jacqui and Shane's nearly finished basement flat and the second with Margot, Rachel and Emma in a 5-star cottage just outside Bath. These are definitely 5-star friends and we had some 5-star moments. The funniest moment of the first weekend was the girls' shopping frenzy in Woolies...yes, I said Woolies...well, I suppose you don't get all that cheap and cheerful stuff in Paris and Milan!! Thanks girls for the best therapy I could have!
I had my CT scan on Monday - it felt strange to be back at The Glen and all the bad memories came flooding back but at least I didn't have to drink the horrible yellow liquid as they weren't interested in looking at my bowel this time. The radiologist wouldn't touch the vein in my arm for the injection of contrast dye as it has been so hardened by the chemo drugs so he went for the back of my hand which is still red and sore. Not pleasant but all over now! Let's see what fun and games the bone scan brings next Monday.
Other than that, I've been working alot..and enjoying it - I'm back to my normal hours on 1st April - but am looking forward to a few days off over Easter and doing some nice stuff with Martin and Iona. Martin, by the way, is taking it a bit easier this week after his indecently respectable performance (can you have such a thing??) in the Bath Half Marathon on Sunday - 1hour 26mins!
D-day is on the calendar - my next appointment with Dr Braybrooke is Tuesday 10th April. He'll have the scan results and, hopefully, we'll know how things are and what's happening next. Until then, I'll be enjoying the sunshine! It's just great to feel well and normal again!
Love Vicky xx
Wednesday 28 March 2007
Wednesday 14 March 2007
A spring in my step
Well, two weeks on and I'm starting to feel really well and no chemo looming to put a dampener on things - yah boo to all that!! Now my hair has stopped falling out I had the luxury of my first hair cut since November - Jon Hurst on Cotham Hill does a half price chemo head cut but I hope you never need to know that!!
Once again, I'm finding it hard to believe there's anything wrong with me..except that the scans are already marked on the calendar - 26th March for the CT scan which will show whether the cancer has gone anywhere else in my body (it shouldn't have given the medical onslaught it has just endured) and 2nd April for the bone scan which will show how effective the treatment has been. Still, I've got two weeks before I need to worry about the results of those.
Otherwise, Martin is getting ready for the Bath Half Marathon, Iona is starting swimming lessons tomorrow and I am doing a bit too much work for my own liking (but I've only got myself to blame for that). I'm looking forward to spending this weekend with four of my oldest schoolfriends who are flying in from Paris, Milan and Edinburgh!! Next weekend I'm away on another girls' weekend with another three schoolfriends - oh yes, I'm making the most of it!!
More soon.
Love Vicky xx
Once again, I'm finding it hard to believe there's anything wrong with me..except that the scans are already marked on the calendar - 26th March for the CT scan which will show whether the cancer has gone anywhere else in my body (it shouldn't have given the medical onslaught it has just endured) and 2nd April for the bone scan which will show how effective the treatment has been. Still, I've got two weeks before I need to worry about the results of those.
Otherwise, Martin is getting ready for the Bath Half Marathon, Iona is starting swimming lessons tomorrow and I am doing a bit too much work for my own liking (but I've only got myself to blame for that). I'm looking forward to spending this weekend with four of my oldest schoolfriends who are flying in from Paris, Milan and Edinburgh!! Next weekend I'm away on another girls' weekend with another three schoolfriends - oh yes, I'm making the most of it!!
More soon.
Love Vicky xx
Saturday 3 March 2007
It's all over...
Well, I definitely saved the worst til last!! The comedy night, Emma's relaxation CD, my emergency parcel from Sue, Mum being here and the wonderful Saint Ursula couldn't stop this being really horrid - I was sick during and after and had to go to bed straight after and for most of yesterday. I couldn't even get out of bed to receive my Friday food delivery together with extra special end-of-treatment fizz delivery...and Margot had even gone to the trouble of putting in a special request for the special delivery man!! Martin's had to bandage my hand up so I can't see the big red veins on the back of my hand as the sight of them makes me wretch.
But enough of that - it's all over, the sun is shining and once I'm out of this familiar post-treatment blur, that fizz will be cracked open and we'll be celebrating. I feel as if an enormous weight has been lifted from me and I feel very happy.
I can't tell you how much you have all helped me through this - the messages that have made me laugh, the messages that have made me cry, the e-mails, the cards, the parcels, the phonecalls, the kind words in the playground - it would have been so much harder without you. Thank you so much - I feel truly humbled. It seems such a long time since those scary days in early November...and what a journey.
And while I'm on the Oscar speech, here's to Martin - what an amazing man - he's been to every appointment, sat with me through all the chemo sessions, he's held the bucket, he's been woken repeatedly in the middle of the night, he's resisted looking at the bank balance after my retail therapy indulgences, he's borne the brunt of the grumpiness and accepted quietly that his life has changed beyond all recognition. You don't really bargain for this when you get together with somebody but he's still here ready to do it all again if we have to. But for the next months we're all looking forward to having some more enjoyable experiences.
More soon.
Love Vicky x
But enough of that - it's all over, the sun is shining and once I'm out of this familiar post-treatment blur, that fizz will be cracked open and we'll be celebrating. I feel as if an enormous weight has been lifted from me and I feel very happy.
I can't tell you how much you have all helped me through this - the messages that have made me laugh, the messages that have made me cry, the e-mails, the cards, the parcels, the phonecalls, the kind words in the playground - it would have been so much harder without you. Thank you so much - I feel truly humbled. It seems such a long time since those scary days in early November...and what a journey.
And while I'm on the Oscar speech, here's to Martin - what an amazing man - he's been to every appointment, sat with me through all the chemo sessions, he's held the bucket, he's been woken repeatedly in the middle of the night, he's resisted looking at the bank balance after my retail therapy indulgences, he's borne the brunt of the grumpiness and accepted quietly that his life has changed beyond all recognition. You don't really bargain for this when you get together with somebody but he's still here ready to do it all again if we have to. But for the next months we're all looking forward to having some more enjoyable experiences.
More soon.
Love Vicky x
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