Monday and I wake with the rest of the household up and away or preparing to go out. I watch episode 11 of the Harvard University Justice lecture before getting up and having breakfast, morning meds and taking my vitals. My partner goes off to see her mother and I set about hoovering and tidying the house. Its not my favourite activity but if I am going away then the house needs to be good to go, so to speak. I beaver away until I can do no more, clear the bins and then treat myself to a smoothie. The post arrives and with it my next oncology review appointment on the 30th of November. All I have to do now is collect my next three Chemo cycles from the hospital pharmacy tomorrow afternoon.
One thing that I finally get to do is package up some pictures from my sisters house to go to my son in Sweden. After a lot of packaging, bubble wrap and yards of gaffer tape I walk over to the post office. I find my parcel is 28 grams over the two kilo limit to send by the post office so it has to be by carrier. I fill in a new customs forms and hand over the money, its in the lap of the gods now. Back home I settle down and started to read Calypso by David Sadaris. Its a poignant but humorous book. I’ve not been reading long when my partner returns with her brother, so I join them for lunch before doing the days cross words of the day. I return to reading my book followed by watching the second series of The Good Place. I idly Google The Good Place and discover there is a book. I am excited and immediately search for it and of course there it is on Amazon. I will be the proud owner by tomorrow and will be able to take it on holiday with me.
My partner and I eat tea and settle down to watch Monday nights competition night on TV. Its a challenge to maintain ones self esteem as ones ignorance is exposed. Thankfully this happens in the privacy of ones own home. The torture goes on as the wait for the Tesco delivery goes on. Eventually Tesco rock up and there is a flurry of activity as the goodies get squirreled away. Tonight I’m going to bed early as last nights late night did me no favours and tomorrow I need to get the car sorted for its run out, collect my chemo drugs and pack for the four day break in Suffolk.
