So, only one more week to go of this treatment round. I'm glad. I am getting quite tired from the lack of sleep and general hyperactivity caused by the steroids. I have chemo on Tuesday next, blood tests and anti-fungal treatment on Good Friday and then the active treatment stops. After that it will be blood tests twice a week waiting for the counts to recover so that I can go on to the next bit.
I am relieved that the steroids have been relatively benign. I admit I was very anxious at the thought of taking them again after my experience as an in-patient last August. However, the ability to get up at 6am and indulge in steroid-fuelled housework obviously works off some of the excess energy! I think it is just easier coping when I am at home and can organise my own time and not worry about disturbing a ward full of people. It has been quite mentally productive as well.
Away from the treatment I have had a lovely couple of days. Yesterday Andrew's mother and I went to the garden centre at Brampton and stocked up on geranium plugs to grow on for the church fete in May. The staff there were fabulous: found the compost I wanted and put it into the car for me, went out to check the deliveries to find my geraniums, ordered a clematis for me. It is so nice when you get really good customer service! Later yesterday a colleague came to visit. It was lovely to see her and to catch up with work, her family etc.
This morning after the hospital I went into the centre of Cambridge to meet a friend and run a few errands. No 3 daughter Rebecca was graduating MA today at the Senate House so I was able to see her through the fence. Actually we totally disgraced ourselves - I climbed on the wall on the outside and she climbed up the inside for a kiss and a picture. She got told off by the Proctor! She will be at her dinner now and is then staying in College overnight with lots of friends from her year.
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