Last Saturday my beauty had a friend to play for most of the day so I just got on with not a lot and that suited me fine. Sunday my beauty complained of chest pains so I thought I should take her to the walk in clinic and get her looked at. Nearly one hour later and it was confirmed that she had the virus too and the chest pains were nothing more than hurting tissue on her chest wall - better to check than find later she had a chest infection was my thought. Then on to Church as she wanted to see if she had a part in the Christmas production. Yes, still some parts so she was happy. Off to Mum and Dads for our traditional Sunday roast and as ever it was delicious and much appreciated. Played Happy Families with Dads vintage cards and Juliette whooped the a*** off us grown ups much to her delight!
Monday came and off to school for my beauty and pottery for me. It was good to be back and a week earlier that I had expected as by now all my post radioactive contact restrictions had finished. I amputated the hand from the arm and the thumb from the hand to make adjustments and reattached them - looking better bit by bit.
Monday afternoon and a trip to school for me too - to resign! Ahhhhhhhhh that feels better. My recent cancer cloud has come with the most enormous silver lining in the form of a critical illness policy payout of a monthly sum for a considerable number of years. This enables me to pay the bills and buy food etc. and means I do not need to work to fund myself and my beauty. Obviously I can work and do fully intend to, hopefully doing one to one teaching either in mainstream or special school settings.
Tuesday and I met with another lady who is about to have RAI and is quite nervous about it all, just as I was. It is lovely to be able to share what I now know, just as my other thyroid friend shared her experiences with me before I went into the "prison".
Wednesday and a flying visit to a very special friend and her husband near Bournemouth who I hadn't seen for about 18 months. She too has cancer and our voices sounded very similar - two daleks together! I had a lovely time, we reminisced about work (where we all met many years ago) and shared many family stories and pictures - a special day x
Thursday and a flying visit to London with my sister to the British Museum to see the Grayson Perry exhibition. It was brilliant, most thought provoking, interesting, fascinating.... I would highly recommend it and if you go with a friend can get a 2 for 1 voucher from the days out guide if you go on the train. There is also the BBC program on iplayer that tells the background to it all, click here:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016ycnn/Imagine_Winter_2011_Grayson_Perry_and_the_Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Craftsman/
Here he is in one of his "lady" outfits - a true character!
Friday and some talking with my talking lady, brief cup of tea with my PC friend and then lunch in town with another good friend. Most odd just the two of us in the restaurant that apparently isn't really a restaurant anymore but delicious cheap Chinese lunch nevertheless! This then followed by swimming lesson for my beauty and some lengths for me too after about 5 weeks off for me I think. I had forgotten that in my new no thyroid, damaged laryngeal nerve status I get extremely breathless after a couple of lengths and have to have a minute or two of puffing before setting off again - it came as quite a surprise!
My beauty has had a success filled day today. She came out of school with a deputy head teacher award sticker for doing some good writing which she was very proud of and then she was told that she has achieved her stage 5 swimming certificate and can move on to stage 6. She's hardly been in those classes two minutes it seems.
After swimming we alternate between McDonalds or the fish and chip shop. Today was fish and chips - yummy. Got home to find another friend waiting for us in his car so we all shared the chips and had a good feed.
Now back to the reason for writing this blog - that blip! That silly thyroid cancer blip. Since coming out of hospital I have really felt that it is all over, that's it, no more, done, but... I still have to see the radiation consultant to get the results of the whole body scan that I had last week just before I was discharged from hospital. I was warned that I may need a repeat RAI treatment in 6 months but I so do NOT want this and as my recent treatment seemed to go so well sincerely hope that this is a good sign but this is not necessarily the case. So my biggest request for those praying/having positive vibes etc. is that I do not need another RAI treatment ever again (or any other treatment come to that!). My appointment is this Wednesday 30th November at 9.30am (likely to be a little later in reality) and my sister is going with me. To add a little irritation to the day, my beauty will be off school as all the teachers are on strike that day!
Thank you good and faithful family and friends
xx
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