And So We Start Again

Christmas is all done and we are back to reality for a while untill summer.  I usually get the Christmas decorations down by Twelfth Night.  I was brought up believing that if you left them up longer it was a year of bad luck.  And with this cancer, I don't need to tempt fate.  So down they came on the 6th January.


I'm now back on the swine chemo.  Started first round a couple of days before NY Eve and sort of buggered up the holidays.  A slight touch of nausea for the weekend.  We were out for NY Eve dinner and I took a smalll bite of my food and had to get up and leave the table whilst I got myself setled down.  I just couldn't eat anything.  Watching the others eat and all the food coming past me in the restaurant didn't bother me.  Strange but there we are.


And that seemed to be the pattern -same for round 2.  Last Thursday I had round 3 and started anti-nausea tablets on Friday and, so far, they seem to be working.  Having said that, it is about the only side effect I have, apart from slight fatigue, so it's not too bad.  Generally eatying well and holding weight.  I have a CT scan at the end of this month and will see how well the chemo is working.  Fingers crossed.


So, according to the overgrown rat from Pensylvannia, we have 6 more weeks of winter.  I'll take that, especially if we have the temperatures we've had of late.  Maybe the rat did well for once.  I never quite understood thetradition anyway. Here is this poor sod Phil in a nice warm burrow, he gets dragged outside in the cold to see if he see's his shadow -like he really cares.  The bit that escapes me is that the bloke who drages Phil out, casts an equal shadow.  So he could just look down and decide if Phil would see his shadow -of course no one seems to look upwards and decide if it's sunny...


Anyway, Easter is around the corner and that one I get.  I'm taking off the Friday for a  3 day weekend.  In Englang it's a 4 day holiday and most places shut down -of course not the pubs or there would be rioting.  Time to order the Easter egg full of chocolate'ss and toffee's.  Haven't found any really good hot cross buns.  All the one's I've seen are a bit too sticky on top.  I shall continue the search this year.  The other thing I really miss are tea cakes. -lovely toasted with a cuppa.


Other than that work is good, plenty of it, and the compnay is growing at a fair rate.  Checking out flat scren TV's at the moment.  Decided I have the space and they are not so expensive these days.


So that's it for now.


Be well to All,
Chris