Wednesday 6th February 2019
“There is no harm in repeating a good thing” — Plato

I didn’t get tired until about 11.30pm last night, it’s rare Jayne gets to sleep before me but last night that’s how things went. I wasn’t sure I needed that evening nap. I woke about 7.30am again, 8 hours sleep. Thats 1 hour less than the day before and 2 hours less than the day before that, although I wished I had got to sleep a bit earlier.

Same routine today, got the kids ready for school, dropped them off in the car and went on to work. I parked in the building, took the lift upstairs and spent the day at my desk, on the phone and in a couple of meetings. A fairly short but productive day again, then home to pick up the kids. I did feel a little more tired today, so I had a quick hour long nap as we had some things on this evening. Again it wasn’t the best nap, I might not have needed that either.

Later on, we went to see Parker get invested at Otters. It was supposed to be last week but I asked to delay it a week as I would have missed it being in hospital. He did great !

Not much movement in symptoms today. My gum is still sore, I’ve discovered a tube of bonjela at home which does a reasonable job to ease the pain, my tongue and throat are better. Heartburn is something I keep forgetting to mention, it’s become a daily and nightly occurrence, I bought Gaviscon yesterday and that does a good job after every glug. I’ve become a walking pharmacy !

I’ve also noticed that the inside of my nose is sore and the skin feels broken. When I blow it, it bleeds a little nearly every time now, particularly in the morning. This is another one to call out on Friday in the context of my blood results. Nose bleeds can signal a low platelet count, which at worst would require a platelet transfusion, although I suspect it’s not that serious as none of my bloods to date have shown an issue there. I’ve had more muffled hearing at points, I don’t know if it’s occurred less, or I’ve noticed it less because I’m getting used to it, but I’ve not clocked it as often today.

On the plus side, my taste is close to being back to normal, which is great considering Jayne had cooked some 10 hour slow cooked pulled pork today 🙂 Not a lot else to say about today though, it was much the same as yesterday. The days are back to passing by at a reasonable pace, and it’s a psychological milestone to look forward to tomorrow as it will mark the half way point in my treatment. Hasn’t time flown !