Quick Update

Back to last night’s last paragraph. So Jayne had complained about being sick most of the night then about 9.30pm and 10.15pm she was sick, a lot ! I said I felt iffy too, and went to sleep probably about 10.30pm after blogging, although I had an uncomfortable toilet trip first. Well at 11.20pm, I woke up and realised it was my turn to be sick. Ran to the toilet, no messing, out it came. I had a drink and went back to sleep.

Jayne was up about 4am for her round 3, whereas I made it to morning where I carried on with the uncomfortable toilet trips. That said, I didn’t sleep well at all and certainly didn’t wake feeling well rested.

We’ve put it down to the magic of children coming home with bugs. Parker has most probably passed on the norovirus.

As I’m still potentially under the effects of the chemo from last Friday, I was taking my temperature this morning and it was between 37.5 and 38 which during chemo would have been cause to call the hotline and expect to be admitted. I decided to start the day and see how things went, it soon fell. I read up on chemo vs norovirus, and it seems there are no antibiotics to get rid of it either so it’s just a case of waiting for it to pass. I felt fairly ok, so I worked from home for the day, best not to go share the love with colleagues given it’s so infectious. Jayne on the other hand was worse and spent the whole day on the sofa, hasn’t really eaten and hasn’t been herself. Although I did need a 2 hour nap earlier, mostly making up for the sleep I didn’t get last night.

I’m sure this is non chemo related given me and Jayne and I had it within a few hours of each other, and that I’m far enough past the evil stuff that the chemo wasn’t a factor, it was just a 24 hour bug. But I still find it incredibly ironic I managed 9 weeks without being sick once, then Parker gifts a bout of nausea to me within 5 days of finishing up. How unlucky ! Just a blip.

While I’m here, symptom update. My fingers, right hand particularly, are tingly and itchy to the point I’ve got the cold packs out again today to try and provide relief. Still sore when handling fiddly things. I can’t wait for this to go away.