Wet Wednesday (and T-1)
Jan 18th 2006PeterHospital Stay
And not only wet, this morning the view across to The City is shrouded in mist making the NatWest tower look very ghostly.
However, first some good news – the blog has moved to a more powerful server, (thank you Mark) so the response times should be a bit faster, and the reliability a bit higher. Not sure that it will do anything for the quality of the writing though!
Not a very good night’s sleep last night. I don’t know if it was a side effect of the chemo (I looked it up on Google – it is related to the mustard gas compounds used in WW1, no wonder the bag is covered in warnings about spillages, lucky it just goes directly into my vein…!) or the noise of the infusion pump putting the saline into me, but I was very restless until the early hours, when I dozed off to be woken by the colleagues of yesterday’s pneumatic drill operators collecting the rubble in large trucks. It is all quiet now – must be tea break again.
Another first this morning – breakfast was hot! One of the ward staff kindly went and fetched it from the kitchen for me, so it was fresh – and delicious. I think I had better make the most of as I can ‘feel’ my sense of taste altering – another side effect of the chemo. This is also a precursor to potential mucositis (inflammation of the mucous membranes) particularly in the mouth, which can also make eating difficult. Oh well, it’ll be back to the chocolate then!
I am on the last bag of saline (3 litres over 24 hours) so I am tied to the infusion pump until about 2 o’clock this afternoon. This makes moving around the relatively small room an interesting evolution, worthy perhaps of “strictly come dancing� as I pirouette around with my infusion pump on its stand!
More welcome visitors yesterday afternoon (thank you Simon) and then Katie. She finishes her work experience tomorrow, and will be going back home, so if any of you in London, do drop in to see me!