Saturday night I agreed to go with Hubby to join our friends and see Scarecrow play. Our friend Paul is the drummer for this very popular local rock band.
Sitting in one place for so long also gave me backache, I had to turn my chair 180° to watch the band and turned back in their break. Gosh I'm getting old and grumpy. Glad to get home but my back hurt enough for me to go to bed then get up shortly after and take paracetamol before I could sleep. I used to go to lots of these with friends years ago but never because I was a big fan, always to please other people and it was the same this time. Hubby can go without me another time.
Had a lovely long phone call from CousinS on Monday. An hour long catchup with family news and a lot of laughter.
As I'm quite short car head rests are not always the support for me they should be. Our new car is particularly bad as it doesn't go right down and my neck is over that gap.
So my first prototype cushion. Elastic to slip over the head rest, larger roll of stuffing at the top to fill the gap and tapered down for lower neck comfort.
That was the theory and it was sort of right but needs to be thicker. I really thought the upholstery was black (must have been our previous car) so I'll make the next one grey if I can find suitable fabric in my stash.
Daughter and R popped over on Wednesday and it just so happened we had taken a cake out of the freezer the night before so it was nice to all share it.
Blood test on Tuesday and she found a vein without too much trouble, thanks to my drinking non stop for about 30 hours before and making four bathroom trips during the night. When they are GP requested blood tests I get to see all the results online but unfortunately these are requested by the hospital Oncology unit so nothing goes online. My specialist nurse works part time so I'll have to wait until next Tuesday and phone her.
Friday was my annual Cystoscopy. Not a nice procedure but I'm grateful they still check. Thankfully it was totally clear. When I mentioned about needing my blood test results to one of the nurses there she tried to look them up but hinted that it really wasn't her place to pass them to me, so I stopped her as I don't want to get anyone into trouble trying to help me.
Now into my fourth week of these cancer meds I'm noticing some side effects. Nothing major just a general yucky feeling and more tired. I also think my usual aches and pains are worse as I've got plantar fasciitis (under the foot pain) again in my left foot which isn't easing with the usual exercises. However the twitchy eye thing is easing off now so that helps to remind me that all these things are temporary.
Hope you are enjoying the last of the summer warm days.
See you next week when hopefully I'll not be grumpy.
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