Wednesday and I am up and ready to go gardening! This is todays plan so I down my grapefruit breakfast, take my drugs and then have a long phone call with a friend as she raids B&Q for paint and returns University library books. In the course of this conversation to things happened. The first was a genius idea to help my partners mother to make tea more safely by eliminating the tricky juggling act of using a kettle to make tea and replacing it with a mini water boiler. Definitely a brilliant thought will help my partners mother retain her independence with less risk. The second thing to happen was the observation that I refer to everything as a fight, and she was right. Having cancer put me into fight mode, which I think is a reasonable stance to take, I am aware that other options are available, but it may well have generalised to other areas of my life, like everything. Not such a good option so I shall take some time to think about that and hopefully get a chance to talk it through with others over the next few weeks. After our conversation I headed for the garden and then spent the next few hours on my hands and knees weeding out the drive and chopping back rouge Lilac. By lunch time I had tweaked my back and was ready for an omelette and a rest.
Weed free and ready
Post lunch is all about getting into the Shed and training and easing my back. So I spend an hour on the bike getting myself hot and stretchy. It goes reasonably well, which continues a good week given that this week started with my 28 day jab.
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I shower and perform my new ritual of creaming my surgery wound with antibiotic cream and renew the spray on plaster protective layer. Its six days since the operation and the wound appears to be coming along nicely.
I settle down for a treat but not before the garden guy rocks up and starts to mow the lawns. It makes such a difference to the garden, I am always immensely grateful when I look out over the freshly cut grass. So the treat was to watch GB ice hockey team beat, yes beat, Belarus, who are ranked several places above them in the championship rankings. The win moves the GB team up the ranking towards the quarter finals. So having eaten tea the evening moved on to Manchester United being beaten 11-10 on penalties in the final of the Europa whilst also watching the Great British Sewing Bee. So much excitement. I write the blog and retreat to bed with my freshly done washing to keep me company.
