Nearly 9 down, 5 to go...

Well I am over half way now on the diet and no drugs and it's manageable in the main.

Just taking life steadily and even managed to cycle into town this morning - pretty tired now though. I met up with a fellow thyroid cancer lady who I have met through the Macmillan forum. She too has pretty much exactly the same as me, the same hospital etc. and finished her radioactive iodine treatment just over a week ago. It was great to compare notes and get her top tips! One being the need for ear plugs to blot out the fridge which murmurs all night and the other a great plan for getting friends in to share breakfast with them there by getting the day off to a great start.

So anyone up for coming in with a couple of hot bacon sandwiches or whatever you fancy for breakfast that we could share?

My beauty is getting more worked up by the day and it looks like skype is not really an option with mobile broadband - the connection is just not good enough. I have said that she can come to the hospital and wave to me from outside if she wants and of course she can always call me.  We have been discussing hugging times too when I come out and thinking about how to maximise our close times. I learnt today that it is not the distance from me but the physically not touching me that is important as the radiation is only passed on by exchange of bodily fluids - aaaagh, sweat of course included. Therefore the allotted time period of close contact permitted is 30 minutes in every 8 hours. So if my beauty and I have hugs before school, let's say 8.30am by 4.30pm we will have another notional 30 minutes. No worries! We'll work it out somehow.

Pottery coming on slowly, second hand taking form and everyone at adult education loved the nail, a weighty and impressive piece.

I am venturing to Langley tomorrow (if I feel well enough), back to my first sculpture venue to either glaze my globe and hands or bring back some glaze to do it locally. Very excited, hope it all comes good. The hands on which the globe sits fired well and do support it pretty well (see entry on Monday 17th Oct for pics of hands in the making).

Plans coming together for next weeks incarceration, timetable being prepared ready to enter willing visitors on to and it will be so good to get this phase done.

I sincerely hope that my silly billy sense of humour returns once I can eat normally and have a good dose of thyroxine back in my system. I am missing it!

Right enough of all that, first visitor already pencilled in for Wednesday, no visiting time restrictions, so day time possible too, just 20 minutes on day 1 per person, then 40 minutes from day 2, so if we all get fed up we know it will be over pretty soon!!!!!

Love to you all
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