Wednesday… an Anniversary!
Jan 9th 2008PeterGetting My Life Back!
It was two years ago this week (it was Saturday 7th January 2006) that I was admitted to Guy’s for the donor transplant! Hard to believe, but good to be still alive and kicking. That also means that it is the blog’s second anniversary too – the first post was made on Sunday the 8th of January – little did I think that it would still be running two years on! If you want to look at those early posts, they are in the archives which you can access from the sidebar. There are some more notable events next week too, but they can wait their turn!
I was delighted to get a call from Simon yesterday and we had a long chat about treatments etc. He is good spirits and halfway through the current cycle of chemo. However he is having a common problem faced by chemo patients – his veins have turned cowardly and are running away from the needles. He did text me today to say that he is having a central line put in to overcome the problem – another scar for the collection Simon!
We also discussed a book “The Enduring Melody” by Michael Mayne. There is a review here but is the autobiography of a patient with cancer of the jaw, decsribing his journey into ‘Cancer Country’. Not light reading, but another map for those of us that find ourselves there. Sadly for the author, his condition is terminal, but not all travellers into ‘Cancer Country’ stay there, although (as Simon and I discussed) once you have been there, life is never quite the same again.
But meanwhile, we continue Onwards and Upwards!
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