Yesterday was a normal day off for Bill and me as we work on Sunday at Riverside and finally I am getting back to normal life. No more train rides into the hospital for some time. I finished my radiotherapy on Saturday; having started a day late; so I had to do six sessions last week. T he radiologist asked me to come and visit them to say hello when I am next in the hospital; for some reason that is not top of my list that I would like to do. Nothing personal to the staff who were all extremely nice but I really don’t want to visit that part of the hospital for some time to come. The nicest thing that the radiologist doctor, who I saw last week, said to me was “See you in a years’ time”, so that is when I will go back to that department. Unless you have been there you cannot imagine how good that sounded. When I talked to the doctor last week she pointed out that where the radio on my body was being done was very red and inflamed. I thought that was normal but evidently I was allergic to the cream that she had given me. This meant that I had to buy a new cream and put that on. It is still red and I am not sure how long it will take to go back to normal coloured skin. Until the skin is back to normal it is best not to sit in the sun; after all I do not want to make it worse.
So what do I have to look forward to? I need a reconstruction so that I am not looking lopsided. That sounds like it will be at the beginning of next year; unless I can persuade them to do it earlier. My main aim at the moment is to rebuild my strength and get back to full health. With the weather is being good at the moment exercise is easy; especially as Bill needs to keep his exercising up as well. Our new thing is to go out on the bicycles as often as we can. We have a lovely cycle track only minutes from the house so we are currently checking how far we can go on that.
I thank God for all the support that we both have had. May I be able to support people as much as my family and friends have supported me.
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