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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
Onwards and Upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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