atahualpa domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/aboarddi/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114I woke up this morning feeling a lot better than yesterday. My throat pains have reduced significantly over night and I feel totally ready for whatever they throw at me next (except the hospital food. Chemo yes. Hospital food no).\n<\/p>\n
I’m now back in Monash Hospital receiving my penultimate round of chemo. It feels a bit like business as usual although my mental faculties are miles above where they were when I was here previously which somehow changes how I’m seeing everything. We recognized all the staff and they recognized us. They all thought my hair (lack of it) looked good and commented on how different and well I was behaving (read it right \u2013 all of you). Each round, this time, comprises two intravenous dispensations of Cytarabine<\/a> with a cocktail of drugs to smooth the way. Including my old favourite, Dextamethasone<\/a>. Now that I’m pretty much on the ball mentally I can feel the battle going on. The chemo drug is knocking me down and the dex is picking me up. I may get some sleep tonight but there’s a nutter in the ward screaming every few seconds. At least I have a room to myself again but the walls aren’t thick enough. With a bit of luck we’ll be home tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n Helen stayed most of the day with me. She went out from time to time buying food. The hospital food is truly disgusting. It shows how sick I was that I actually liked it for the first three and a half chemos. Now with my continued tongue funniness there is nothing funny about the food. She also went to visit a couple we’ve come to know. Ken is the patient and his wife is always with him. We first met them here in this hospital and last met them at the Peter Mac while I was having RT and he was waiting to see a haematologist at the Monash Moorabbin clinic. Sadly his health has taken a nose dive and is getting worse each day. It’s now just a matter of time as he’s being moved to palliative care.\n<\/p>\n Helen and I spent some time chatting but I spent most of the day doing stuff on the laptop and Helen doing stuff on hers, reading and resting. Since the last blog yesterday evening here’s a taste of the things we accomplished, in no particular order:\n<\/p>\n Somehow at the end of all this my TODO list is now longer than when it started. Like working on the boat, whenever you start doing one project, another three spring up – mostly ideas of something else to do. This seems no different.\n<\/p>\n \n\u00a0<\/p>\n The nutter is still screaming and other patients have been yelling at him. Joy.\n<\/p>\n \n\u00a0<\/p>\n PS. I do realize the word ‘nutter’ is a poor word choice and may be seen as bad taste, for someone so ill, but it is important for one’s own sanity to distance oneself sometimes. Dark humour is one way of doing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I woke up this morning feeling a lot better than yesterday. My throat pains have reduced significantly over night and I feel totally ready for whatever they throw at me next (except the hospital food. Chemo yes. Hospital food no). <\/p>\n I’m now back in Monash Hospital receiving my penultimate round of chemo. It feels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n