Friday. Awake at 9 o’clock and doing my SATs soon after. Breakfast of toast and the then I fill up my drugs wallets with my new chemotherapy drugs. They come in some cool packaging but still look menacing to me.

Chore done I head for the garden. I focus on the front garden for hours in order to clear it of weeds and prepare to plant out the seedlings in the greenhouse. I flog away at it all morning until my partner feeds me at lunch time. Then I am back at planting out and tidying up in general. Along the way I take pictures of the amazing flowers that are appearing in my garden.

Eventually I run out of steam and retreat indoors and do another set of SATS to see how I am after all my gardening efforts. They turn out okay so I decide to grit my teeth and go for a training session. I change into my kit and get in the garage. I set up a half hour session. It goes quite well given my training schedule this week and I end up making my standard goals for half an hour.

Back at the sofa I record the session and then go and shower before going out for a meal with friends. Its a really pleasant evening, good food, good company and good conversation. On getting home I draft the blog, take my night meds, then I head for bed. Tomorrow is going to be a long day but will end with me starting my new chemotherapy. Scary but necessary. So this is the end of Armed and Ready and the beginning of Chemo II.