Saturday, todays the day I start my new chemo but not until I have met friends for a late lunch in the afternoon. So I start the day with a muesli breakfast and then I catch up with some admin related to my sisters estate. There is a STATs session to be done to complete my pre Chemo SATS record. It goes okay, and it seems all my figures are in the normal range. I load my car with some beads and a work box that I have promised to a friends crafting group and then drive off to meet my friends. It is lovely to see my friends and to eat a meal out with them. It is a time of change for several of the group and we chat and catch up with our news. At the end of the meal I hand over the beading box to my friend and then drive home dropping one of my friends off on the way.

By the time I get home there is a chance to do my second SATs reading of the day and then its the European cup final. I watch the game and then start to draft the blog while half watching Have I Got News For You. Its time to take my first new Chemo drugs. I am apprehensive having read all the information that has been sent me by the oncologist coupled with all the additional monitoring that is being required. The message is one of toxicity but then the experience of people taking it is wide ranging so it feels like I am about to play medical Russian roulette. Saturday nights all right for a fight and Rocket is up for it. See you on the other side.