Saturday 9th March 2019
“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man” — Henry Adams
Late night last night, I was still up at 11.30pm. I woke needing a pee at 7.30am and then I was awake, we were getting up at 8am anyway to go out for a breakfast, Luke’s continuing birthday celebrations. We had a cracking breakfast at Slattery’s, followed by lots of chocolate which they are famous for.
We went home and chilled out before Luke’s driving lesson. Jayne very kindly offered to leave me at home so I could have a nap, so I stayed home with Parker. Funnily enough, despite just the 8 hours sleep, I was tired but not quite tired enough to nap. I instead decided to go into the garage and do some more tinkering with the reclaimed wood projects I’ve been trying to develop. It’s made slightly harder at present because of my sore hands.
I spent an hour doing that, and then it was time to pick up Luke’s friends and take them bowling. They had a good time, then it was off to Pizza Hut for his birthday meal. Again they had a good time, and Jayne and I enjoyed some pizza. After that we went back to ours, filled them all with cake and then drove them home mid-sugar rush to their unsuspecting parents. If anything, I think the noise of 7 kids in confined spaces for a number of hours has done more damage to my hearing than the chemo ever will. It felt like there was nothing wrong with my hearing today. Most of the time it was pure chaos.
Randomly I have a Urology appointment tomorrow at North Manchester Hospital, where I was going before I got diagnosed with cancer and moved to the care of The Christie. 10.40am on a Sunday ? I think this is unrelated to the cancer but it was October when I was last there so I’ll turn up tomorrow and see what they want me for.
Other than that we have no plans tomorrow so I plan to spend an hour or two in the garage again and then settle down to watch the football. I have some reclaimed wood and I can make stuff like this, I’d like to get some going and sell them perhaps with a % going towards my charity fundraising. These “prototypes” already stoked some interest from facebook friends.
That’s the majority of the day gone, and now it’s early to bed to write my blog then think about falling asleep. Sitting here at 9pm still reasonably “with it” having only had 8 hours sleep, no nap, and quite an active day is a positive sign. My fingers have gone a little sorer again, but have been worse. I struggled to do the button on my pants, and the buttons on my shirt earlier today due to the pain, I think yesterday’s chemo had a small impact. No other symptoms this time, no phlegmy cough from yesterday’s bleomycin shot like I usually get. Positive progress. Another enjoyable day.
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