I think I said in an early post that it was easy to feel upbeat and positive when you feel fit and healthy. Do not fear, I’m still positive and upbeat but I’m a bit fed up with this annoying cough and cold, which I have now had for more than two weeks and which is disrupting sleep.
I’m also trying to get into some sort of ‘normal’ pattern of living and working during my treatment, but it”s early days and things have not yet settled down. Last week was taken up with all things hair, from chopping it off to shaving it off to learning how to cover a bald head, both for cosmetic purposes and for warmth. There will be a bit more of that this week — to buy a wig or not etc. Then there are my lovely friends, keen to help/see me/distract me and before I know it my time is filled without even getting down to serious things like working and resting!
It will settle down. It’s all a bit of a novelty, if I can use that word for something this serious. Or maybe it won’t for a few months. Maybe a ‘routine’ is neither necessary nor desirable. I need to just go with the flow. I guess it’s the only way anyway given that it’s important to listen to your body and do as much or as little as you feel is good for you on the day.
So this week’s mission is to shake off the cold and to get something written for work before Friday’s cHemo starts the next cycle again.
