Friday 11th January 2019
“Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day” — Jurgen Klopp

Not a great deal to say today to be honest. I consider myself really lucky that again for most of today I feel relatively normal. 7.30am get up, walked the kids to school, no issue. Sat down on the sofa when I got home, and 20% of me felt like a nap. Promptly ignored, I headed out to the supermarket to stock up on a few things.

Back to the medical side of things, no sickness at all so far, not even a slight feeling of nausea. Appetite still all there. My taste is still weird, I couldn’t really taste the sugar on a Morrisons Donut (my personal fave) earlier. No mouth ulcers / sores which I believe are again a matter of time, but I got some mouthwash ahead of time to try and stave these off as long as possible. Other blogs suggested that laxatives may be required at some point, and I’m starting to notice a need potentially, so bought some to be prepared. Sorry if too much info ! Best to attack this one proactively than suffer discomfort.

General energy levels still seem ok, I’ve had quite an active day and at about 6pm, my eyes feel a little sleepy, not quite enough for a nap. One bizarre thing though, in the past I have suffered year on year with bad tonsillitis that puts me in bed for a week. My tonsils have always been really big and I’ve always thought that has been a contributor. However, when I checked them earlier (through sheer paranoia) to make sure I’m not getting a sore throat or similar, randomly since the chemo they have shrunk considerably ! That would be a win in my book !

I’d got a snazzy ear thermometer from Amazon which has turned out to be rubbish, so I returned it and picked up a bobby basic one today which does the trick. Temperature checked regularly today, always around 36.7 to 37.1 so that’s good news. I’ve finished my steroids and anti-sickness tablets today, but I also decided to pick up some Vitamin C and Multivitamin tablets to try and help my body out while it will be struggling. No harm in trying, whatever your opinion of them is.

Dad came round for a brew and we had a good chat for an hour or so, he went through the decontamination process on the way in 🙂 My sister was due round too but my very young nephew has developed a cold so we knocked that on the head. I even managed to put up some new curtains for Jayne and fix the curtain pole, some housework too.

I’m still waiting for this slippery slide to come. Maybe I’ll wake up tomorrow feeling like I’ve run a marathon after being quite active today. Maybe not and it’s still a few days away. My plan was to start back at work on Monday (from home), I’m lucky in that I can work from home so at this point I don’t see why that won’t be the case, although I’m under no pressure there. I need some mental stimulation, boredom had already kicked in today at points. I’ve had my head in work emails at points in the week, just to see what’s been going on.

But for now, I have the conundrum of how to enjoy my weekend without being too bored whilst being on “reduced duties.” It’s not a bad problem to have…