Wednesdays hospital day. All day today too.
I had lung function tests and an echo cardiogram. Nothing too strenuous or involving any cutting!!
I had to sit in this funny little box and do a lot of heavy breathing,blowing and sucking I'll leave you to guess how that relates......
Results were pretty normal considering my heart worked over time initially and the chemo and the pulmonary embolism undoubtedly caused my lungs some damage but I'm still relatively Normal - how little they know !!!
Oh yes and they gave me a plastic gallon bottle for a 24 hr urine collection(?) but I guess you didn't need to know that.
What the heck I seriously am protecting you from the yucky stuff. 
The long waits in different clinics, the 7 times a day skin prickings. Ahh that reminds me I haven't had my injection tonight.
Be right back.
Life has taken on a new pace now cranking up the tests making sure that Woolwich are COMMUNICATING with Kings so that all my little foibles are highlighted.Making sure all my t's are crossed and i's dotted.
Ihab,the doctor who gave me my diagnosis that crappy crappy day, said he might do a biopsy on Monday - aghh - thought i had a least another week before we did that but I'm meeting with Kings, Prof Mufti, on Wednesday and the results of this biop would help the conversation. He won't do it unless my platelets are over 100 (don't want me wasting blood)and today my platelets went from 32 to 33. Don't laugh that 1 platelet is mine - I made it - so it shows that my blood just may be recovering.
I think they're all getting a bit excited about me leaving and going for transplant. They all keep hugging me. The nurses,the health care assistants, the tea ladies. Think I'm going to look at it that way - that they're excited for me.
Must admit to feeling readyish....While I'm at home that's true - I'm positive but I know they'll be times in the hospital when I'm going to feel lousy and will have to dig deep.Thats when I'll be calling on you......
Going to look in to getting a 3G data card this week, believe then I may be able to surf from my hospital bed - gee wouldn't that be great, that would make such a difference to me especially in terms of contact with the boys.
Speaking of whom I have just completed a large Waitrose order (sorry Jill) filled with all sorts of goodies for my lovely ones. I kept on looking at the total and it seemed surprisingly low and then i realised - no wine. Soon rectified that. Well I know I can't drink it but I can buy it - the complete opposite of living in Cairo - so I am therefore obliged almost.
Rest day tomorrow.
Apart from a trip to the post office to post my completed Tax Return, yes Karen you'd be proud - from sitting on your balcony in Maadi last June moaning that I must do it, to here and now - finally complete - despite most of my records being in Egypt.
Shall I finish with a joke?
let me think.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/deadringers/clips/realmedia/dr_catinthehat_16x9_nb.ram
HI! Finally! It's Australia Day today and extremely hot. We've just come back from walking the dog and having a cup of coffee. Bumped into
Maggie and Jack doing the same. Am just about to jump in the pool to cool down and then a quiet little veg out with a book and video. Have to do both at once or I won't get to do either! Lovely having a day off and I know I should be doing all sorts of chores that don't seem to get done because working full time. Don't really care any more. Michele is back tonight after a week away on rowing camp. She is heavily into rowing and loving it. She is exhausted but very fit. Wish my body looked like hers! She is all muscle and no fat and very slender. Can't say thin because that's not what she is. Now if I could just convert my menopausal fat into muscle - mind you if that happened I'd just look like a very solid sumo wrestler!! Perhaps if I consumed a little less alcohol but it's sooooo nice - especially on these hot, hot days. Life returns to some sort of routne next week when Michel goes back to school. It's a very short term because of the Commonwealth Games in March. It will go so quickly and it is already jammed packed with stuff. I'm President of the Parent Association for this term - thank god the school has decided that a term is more than enough to ask of anyone. I chose this term because I know it was only about 6 weeks and then I could hand over. Looks good but not too much of a burden. Besides I get to do all the parent cocktail parties - one each week! At least I only have to speak at the New parent one - yuk! Why is public speaking so scary when I don't have any trouble on a one to one basis? I'm going back to my italian lessons this year. A year off and I'm starting to lose all the hard work I'd put in so don't want that tohappen because I still dream of one day living in Italy - if only for a short time. Do you thin chris will mind if I try my italian on an italian lover?