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A pleasant and very cold icy day. In the middle of all the pleasantness there’s a phone call from a nurse at our local hospital about the imminent Ken/Chemo 😐 There are lots and lots of questions 😯 And then back to pleasantness 😊 My car alarm turned on and off most of last night🙄.… Continue reading DAY 64

Still feeling rocked by yesterday’s chemotherapy news, and waiting for a phone call from King’s College Hospital this afternoon. No idea what that call will be about. I’ll report back later 😬 Just had the phone call … from a delightful Leonie, who checked on everything to do with my progress. Two main points came… Continue reading DAY 63

Another Blood Test today … (on a very very grey miserable wet Monday) 🙁🙄 It’s a chance for me to collect my blood test results for last Thursday’s Blood Test. I’m looking forward to seeing how my blood’s RDW (Red Cell Distribution Width) level is.   And here’s what I found: So my RDW (in yellow) is… Continue reading DAY 62

Lovely lazy day 😊😊 with a Sunny Blue Sky 😊😊 We do ‘Sunday things’ 📰 ☕️☕️ 📺🌷🌻🍳👩‍🍳😴😴📝✍️📞 Walk in circles around the garden, and achieve 888 steps! I didn’t realise our garden was so big 😳

I’m 60% of the way to DAY 100 😊🎉 There’ll be cake and blackcurrant juice this afternoon 🥳 And weirdly my eyebrows have suddenly started growing long, and quite rapidly ! Nobody told me that this would happen … At the same time the hair on my face has started growing quickly – but (much) more on the… Continue reading DAY 60

No blood test today, and we have a lovely lazy time. It’s a blue sky sunny 😎😎 We spend 3+ hours in the garden having coffee, doing jobs, me walking, having lunch, and relaxing. We don’t talk about, or even think about the problem mentioned yesterday. A perfect day 😊 I walk 600 steps (in… Continue reading DAY 59

Yet another blood test this morning 🙄 And I was given my latest test results: I’ve been a bit worried, recently, about my haemoglobin things in general, and RDW in particular. I haven’t mentioned it here before, in case it caused any worries. RDW is a measure of the uniformity of red blood cells. The bigger… Continue reading DAY 58

It’s going to be a good morning, so we’ll head off for a walk in the sun 😊 Rain this afternoon 🙄 Well it’s a VERY BIG day today because it’s the first time that I’ve driven my car in over 10 weeks!   I’m driving us (the about 10 miles) to The Friary, for… Continue reading DAY 57

A good day, but wet. Not much happened. 😊

Blood test 🙄 followed by lovely blue sky walk today. 2,352 Steps! Perfect 😊