Friday, my least favourite Friday of the year, a Bank Holiday weekend which means I get my 28 day jab two days early, and this particular Friday I am getting my 8 day jab, B12 injection and my bloods taken for my oncology review on Wednesday. So I am up and showed and taken my morning meds in plenty of time to walk down to the GP surgery. I arrive promptly and I am called into the clinical room equally promptly. Today my 28 jab nurse is also doing my B12 and my bloods. The jabs go okay, a bit stingy but I was (or my veins were) reluctant to give up blood but eventually we got the vampire tubes filled enough for the samples. I walk home via the Co-Op and got croissants and a paper. The store was pretty depleted of some things as it was clear the cyber attack on the the Co-Op was having a lasting effect.
I made myself breakfast and then did a few things in the garden like relay a fire in the chimenea and dispose of the ashes. I topped up the squirrel feeder and the bird feeders before wrestling two large boxes into the recycling bin. I completed the days crosswords and then began to look at more of the photos from the visit to the Shropshire Sculpture Park. As I did so I became aware that my injection site was getting sore and I was becoming more uncomfortable as time went on. I persisted with my review of the photos from the sculpture park, here are just a couple more to share.
What I have put on the blog is a tiny fraction of things to see at the sculpture park, I did ponder buying a small owl made out of motorbike parts but as my partner reminded me, “where would we put it”, and its true we have so much stuff that we have gathered up over the years. So we left the sculpture park empty handed but having had a lovely and unexpected day.
By early evening I am feeling really crap. I eat pizza for tea, fix the Netflix account and watch films and TV as my soreness and inability to concentrate increases. I take my night meds and my partner makes me toast to help soak up the liquid paracetamol I take. My partner goes to bed but exhausted as I am I hang onto till midnight to see my blood results. Usually they are on the system at midnight but tonight they do no appear. I reason that it is Bank Holiday so there may be a delay. I go to bed at gone midnight and hope for the relief of sleep.
Before getting up I do my vitals and they are are good enough apart from my heart rate that is higher than usual. I do not know why but all I can do is rest today and get through the post jab effects. Once up I make breakfast and sit on the sofa and begin to draft the blog, adding photos and blood results along the way. At lunchtime my partner brings me a much appreciated bacon sandwich as I work towards updating my blood pressure spread sheet, a necessary chore as its one of the things the oncologist is always interested in. I like to be able to given then an accurate average over the current cycle, hence the spread sheet. Once that is done the plan is to rest as much as possible and ride out the aftermath of yesterdays injections.
