Saturday… t+114
May 13th 2006PeterPost Hospital
I had meant to write this up yesterday, but it has been such lovely weather that I have been away from the computer – and I was out for a lot of the day!
In fact it has been a busy couple of days. After I got back from Wednesday’s consultation with Linny, and the good news about the radiotherapy and the PET scan appointment, I did get down to the dive club. Frustratingly, I was helping provide some poolside cover for a training session – it was sooo tempting to grab some kit and get in the water! However I resisted the temptation – apart from the fact that I am probably not quite strong/fit enough yet – I don’t suppose the prolonged immersion would have done my skin any good!
Thursday was a lovely sunny day – time for some pottering in the garden, although I avoided digging the trenches for the runner beans! (They were done later by someone else) My feet were quite sore, not helped by the walking in London, and walking round the damp poolside in bare feet the night before. However I did get some plants potted out in tubs, and continued the fitness regime with a few domestic chores – like the ironing! I also did a bit of tweaking of the server software (this site is self hosted) for the web and blog pages with Mark’s (fellow blogmaster) help!
Another lovely day yesterday too – so it seemed silly not to nip put to the pub for lunch – again! This could become a pleasant habit although purely in the interest of research to check that my sense of taste is returning!
Alas, no pleasure without the payback! My skin is really itchy today. I’m not sure if it was because I was in the sun yesterday (not the pub – that was The Rising Sun!!) or just that I have overdone it a bit in the last couple of days. However I have slapped on some steroid creams which has eased it a bit. The good news (always a silver lining!) is that my hands are a lot less sore, and the cracked skin on my feet seems to have started healing!
Weatherwise we have sunny spells at the moment – and as we are in the middle of one, I had better go and see how the garden is getting on! Onwards and upwards!
3 Responses to “Saturday… t+114”
Richard Bushrod on 13 May 2006 at 7:54 pm #
Peter you could try mixing fitness with (edit by Peter… diving?)please and try http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=61701
Stephen McGinley on 15 May 2006 at 2:59 pm #
Hi Peter, Just went into your blog having lifted the address from your reply re amendments to Eve.
Elspeth has been trying to give me the blog address for some time now but could not remember what it was. I like the lay out, you’re such a wiz! Must say your journey has been well written and informative I’m really pleased to see the remarkable change in your wellbeing, keep it going!!
I note Calpe and your climb! I was there last September on a master practitioner’s course in NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming and looked out at the rock everyday from a penthouse apartment, it made a lasting impression on me undoubtedly, a beautiful place.
I note from your blog that your taste buds have been quite uncooperative. I understand that the culprit is the nose and sense of smell. I recall an experiment using an expert tea taster who had his nose blocked off and when asked to could not distinguish tea from coffee, which may be the case with hospital tea and coffee anyway!
I will be attending the opening of the LC office tomorrow as it falls on a rest day for me. I will be travelling up with Suzy Ruddles who is a co-ordinator with St George’s Hospital she will be doing research work for transplant patients at the hospital this will involve the psychological aspects of isolation and transplants. We (LC) are funding £10k towards the project which will have as part of the service a plasma screen in the room which can have a web link to anywhere the patient (client) wants eg. Home, or favourite place which I understand for you could be the pub!! Any way if I don’t see you tomorrow I will keep you informed as you may wish to give some insight. I have your blog now and will look in! TTFN
Peter on 15 May 2006 at 3:21 pm #
Ah – the layout was pre-determined by the WordPress software, so I can’t claim any credit for that! It is self hosted though, so setting up Apache, MySql, and PHP under Linux was an interesting challenge!
Certainly interested in the St George’s Hospital project – unfortunately can’t make it tomorrow (Tuesday)
In the pub – me? Never! 🙂
Peter