Wednesday… 12 days to Christmas
Dec 13th 2006PeterLife on hold!
And with that in mind, I thought I would bring a little festive decoration to the blog! I hope you like it.
There is some other good news too – yesterday was the earliest sunset of the year, and from today, the evenings start getting lighter! Yes it is true! Although the shortest day is December 22nd, the combination of the elliptical orbit of the earth round the sun and the 23 1/2 degree tilt of the earth’s plane of rotation with the orbital plane mean that earliest sunset and latest sunrise do not coincide on the shortest day. However the bad news is that although the evenings start getting lighter, the mornings continue to get darker at a faster rate until around the shortest day. Sunrise contines to be later until the end of December when sunrise starts getting earlier again.
A similar effect occurs in June at the longest day, but because the earth is further from the sun, the effect is less pronounced and latest sunset/earliest sunrise are much closer to the longest day.
Education lesson over for the day! I am still waiting to hear when the PET scan will be, and I suspect I may need sedation or a strong pain killer so I can lie in the machine. I am still suffering from various aches and pains, and sleeping sitting upright doesn’t make for a good night’s sleep. I think I have caught a bit of a cold too – there have been a couple of nasty bugs going round, but I hope I can shake that off by Christmas.
No visible signs of the GvHd yet, but it is still a bit early, but there are some more donor lymphocytes waiting, if required!
So onwards and upwards!
(Just heard – the PET scan is tomorrow, and we a looking at ways of overcoming the pain problem)