Tuesday 27th October - good news from consultant appointment

Just returned from seeing the consultant.  It was good news.  She was very pleased with how I had come through the last lot of chemo and also with my current blood counts (essentially back to normal).  I didn't have to have the bone marrow test today and I have the rest of the week off.
Next week I will be in Addenbrookes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons having a trial drug that I signed up for right at the beginning of the whole process.  After that there is a week off, probably with blood tests and the bone marrow test, and then we see the consultant again on 17 November.  Assuming all is well then, the next stage is two 3 day inpatient stays for methatrexate treatment, probably about a fortnight apart.  And then it will be December...

Best news is that at the moment all my blood counts are normal so I can be a bit less worried about what I eat and where I go.  Also I have had my medication reduced and been given the go-ahead to do as much exercise as I feel like (within sensible limits obviously).  I'm looking forward to getting back on the bike!

 We had a very productive weekend.  On Saturday Sarah and I made bramble and apple jelly and also bramble and apple cheese (which involved rubbing the pulp through a sieve, which gave Sarah a blister, cooking it for ages with a splatterguard on top of the pan as it looked like hot mud pools while it was cooking, and then potting it and leaving it until November 2016).

In a desperate attempt to rid ourselves of more of the apples from our tree Andrew, his mother and I also made apple chutney.