Super Saturday

No this isn’t a blog about football, just the best way to describe yesterday.

Friday night I managed to sleep a whole four hours without a spasm or needing to pee. I woke up with a spring in my step.

I was up, showered and dressed by 9, just too excited for my visitor. Rob went to pick up my bestie from her sister’s, she had flown down from Glasgow just to see me. She obviously wasn’t feeling the excitement as she was still in her pjs when she walked in!

We had such a relaxing day, just chatting about everything and nothing. We sent Rob up to get some cakes from the bakery. Why do men just get what you ask? Cakes there is an s on the end meaning plural, not just one each! Still it was gratefully received.

I managed to stay up all day, every now and then my body would end up horizontal but she didn’t seem to mind and stopped pulling funny faces every time I did it. Another friend popped by too, was nice seeing them busying themselves doing my washing. I restrained myself from re-putting out the washing how I like it hung. Bless her she just doesn’t get to use her washing line much in Glasgow. At least she uses matching pegs!

We’ve definitely moved with the times. Gone were the Argos catalogues, we were comparing stuff online, on our smart phones (think that’s what they are), on eBay, actually quoting codes! Go us!

I had warned her that I look different. Not only do I have a very red and blistered head, I do feel like part of me has died inside. I’m hoping it’s just asleep and will come back when this is all over. Although having the girls round yesterday lit a little something.

Last night was the cricket club’s quiz night. I love quizzes though with my chemo brain I knew it was going to be a non-starter. I haven’t left the house other than to go to the hospital so we popped by just for an hour to show our support. I managed to slap on some make up and put on my nice posh orange headscarf to cover the red blisters. This lasted about ten minutes, I was too hot! I’m hoping most people know I am having chemo and don’t think I’ve just gone all Britney!

Going out was good, was so nice to see our friends. I do love our cricket family, just being in their company is enjoyable, the quiz was a bonus (and I knew a couple of the questions). Maybe we should have stayed only half an hour. My head started pounding and my knees became very wobbly but I am glad we went.

I even caught up with X-factor when I got home and didn’t go to bed until nearly midnight. I actually felt like a ‘normal’ adult for hours yesterday. By 3 am I was wide awake with a throat like razors. I’m on temperature watch, above 37.5 I have to phone the hospital. It’s hard to think you can over do it just by sitting down.

I have come back to bed. Rob is watching the golf and I’m actually starting to enjoy it too, we are having conversations about the players and the course. I need to speak to my oncologist about that, very worrying!