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Monday

Nov 27th 2006Life on hold!

I have just had a busy but fun weekend with Leukaemia care, the charity I do voluntary work with. You may recall that the charity has been developing some training courses and I am one of the trainers delivering the courses. We have got them about 98% complete now, and this weekend some of my fellow trainers and I were giving the course modules to the charity’s staff.

This was the first time I have met up with my fellow trainers (Neil, Suzanne, Mike and Steve) for some months, and it was Mike’s first time at presenting course modules, so we were working quite hard in the evenings to refine things and familiarise ourselves with the course content. We were fortunate in that one of the team was in self catering, so we could socialise too (great Spag Bol Suzanne) and I am delighted to report that there are hints of taste returning – certainly Stella Artois tasted fine!

The course delivery went well – it is a learning curve for all of us – the candidates for the content and us for the best methods of delivery. However the icing on the cake for the team was the appearnce of Elspeth (whose blog I also host – link on the left) on Sunday morning – looking extremely fit and well. Great to have you with us Elspeth!

I got home yesterday evening – quite tired! Apart from the preparation, delivering the course itself is surprisingly tiring, but it went really well, so the preparation paid off! The next stage is to consolidate the lessons we have learned and produce the ‘definitive’ training notes.

Healthwise, not much to report. My sense of smell seems to be waking up, although food still doesn’t have much smell, I was hit by the smell of white spirit from some decorating when I arrived home! My sense of taste seems to be getting slightly better too. I mentioned the Stella, however the bacon I had for breakfast at the weekend tasted of nothing much, most food still tastes very bland – still, better than tasting unpleasant).

The sore throat is much better, although I found that the presenting made my mouth dry (My spit production is down! – one of the side effects I was warned about, but that should recover in time) and that makes my voice sound thicker.

Still, all seems to be going reasonably well on the symptoms side – now we need the GvHd so the underlying lymphoma gets a good kicking!

Onwards and Upwards!

6 Responses to “Monday”

  1. Richard on 27 Nov 2006 at 1:31 pm #

    Cannot spit! Well that rules out professional footers then.

    Very good to hear that you are in control again…….beats the rest of us 🙂

    Still semi-crossed pending the GvHd

    Rxchxrd

  2. Elspeth on 27 Nov 2006 at 2:53 pm #

    THANK YOU, Peter, for adding to my blog – my password is still not being accepted, and thank you for your vigilance.
    Great to you to return to the team, and you coped superbly well, congrats.
    It certainly was a wonderful day for me too, getting the brain back to thinking LeukCARE and the Training – the learning seesions last year were a highlight for me! You’re all really good friends, and it was an oppportunity to see everyone that I couldn’t miss!.
    Graham (IT in the unit) comes this evening, so I’ll see what he says, but things are looking pretty drastic for my computer and my temper!
    I managed the return journey fine, indeed apart from getting diesel, went non-stop! (5hr 15mins, 315 miles, and I wasn’t rushing, but traffic between Worceter-Birmingham-Manchester was very much heavier than I expected).
    L ‘n’ Hs

  3. Suzanne Riley on 28 Nov 2006 at 6:35 pm #

    Hi Peter

    Great to catch up with you and it was a joy particularly as you have a great sense of humour!! I too was very tired and I am still feeling the effects of the training, late nights, good company and the driving – which have resulted in two nights not at the gym – unheard of for me, but it will not do me any harm.

    Work now mega busy but counting the days before I head of on hols (7/12). (www.yogaonashoestring.com) holidays kerala 09 dec 06

    When we finally get a date together to discuss the 4 Modules (plus conclusion) I will arrange for us all to have copies (if you forward them to me). Not sure if Neil mentioned but we used the Conclusion on Sun and it worked really well – good work.

    New carpet arrived and looks fab and sofas arrive Thursday.

    Have a good week, lol

    Susie Shackles xx

  4. Peter on 28 Nov 2006 at 8:26 pm #

    No Problems Elspeth, although it looks as if you have managed to Log in since you wrote this. It was good to see you looking so well!

    Suzanne – thank you for teh comment – it was hard work, but great fun! I’ll e mail you separately about the next stages for the modules.

  5. Liz on 29 Nov 2006 at 9:15 pm #

    Glad you had a good w/e and hope that you soon have good news on the GvHd front.

    Lots of love,
    Liz

  6. Peter on 30 Nov 2006 at 10:48 am #

    Fingers crossed, Liz, fingers crossed!