Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I’ve been away with my partner to a Spa. So I have indulged in healthy food, an occasional afternoon slab of cake washed down with a glass of prosecco, and a treatment. In my case I got rubbed down with a wire brush and then moisturised. I thought of it as being rubbed down with a hedgehog and then with an oily rag. It was a very good feeling and left me very relaxed and probably tricky to grab hold of. The real luxury is that everything is brought to you and people smile and say “no problem” a lot. Then of course there is time to read, laid out on a sun lounger or a sofa wrapped in a white fluffy towelling with nothing else but swim wear on. Everyone is in a fluffy white robe so it feels like one is part of a flock of pampered sheep who are being fattened up and prepared for the check out. To be honest I do not care it is worth the price to have some luxury time.

I did find my way to the gym where I buckled up on their version of a rower. It was a proper chain rower and made me work hard than mine back home. After half an hour I was dripping with sweat which was just fine and set me up for for the gingerbread roll and prosecco experience a little later.

Of course on Thursday it was my partners 65 birthday a big one which is why we were treating ourselves to the luxury break. The getting away was the main thing and having time to indulge and reflect and I think we did that well. By the time Friday lunchtime came around and it was time to leave we were both chilled and ready for the coming Christmas stuff. I drove us home and we unpacked and tidied away before I went to the chemists to pick up my monthly prescription, my cancer is never far away from the surface in one form or another.

There is some Christmas admin to do before tomorrows lunch with friends, however storm Darragh may have an effect on whether everyone can get there. I settle in for a quiet evening of TV, my night meds are taken early and I am drinking a lot of water as I am due to have my hospital bloods taken at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning at the GP surgery in the next village. Yep its that time in my 28 day cycle, I am due my injection on Monday and my Oncology review on Wednesday the 11th. It comes around so fast and it means I will loose the first two or three days of next week.