Its Tuesday and been a long day, or at least my body feels like it has been. It started well enough with decaf coffee and breakfast as I settled down to watch the first semi final of the women’s world cup. It is a game where everything happens in the last ten minutes. Spain finally come out 2-1 winners over Sweden. I get my washing in and have lunch with my partner before hanging out my washing and getting another load in.

Just after two o’clock I drive into town and then walk from the central car park to the hospital pharmacy. I am very hot and I am thankful that there is not a long wait before my name gets called and my bag of drugs is proffered. I walk back to the car and return home glad to be out of the car fumes of the city. Its noxious and sickening. Once home I check my phone and find two texts purporting to come form my bank and asking me to respond to a link. Scam I think and delete them. I then try to buy an item on Amazon and have the card declined. I ring my bank and find that someone is trying to use my card. The upshot is that my card is compromised and is now withdrawn, and a new one wings its way to me. My banking sorted out I set about filling my drugs wallet with cycle three of my chemo drugs.

By the time tea time comes around I am out of spoons and very tired. I watch both a football match and a television series before taking the first dose of cycle three and drafting the blog. I go to bed early and wait for the drugs to kick in. Tomorrow I will need to train to hold the side effect off.