Hi All,
Just a quick update of everything
that’s been going on since my last post, before I go into hospital for my next
dose of chemo...
So, I was gutted to have missed
out on seeing David Beckham last week, when he visited the Young Persons Unit
at the QE hospital. Of all the times I’ve been there, it seemed typical that I
should have been discharged only a few days before! However, even though the
week started with some disappointment I ended up receiving a phone call,
telling me I’d won a ticket to see Olly Murs! The concert’s in March at the LG
Arena and I can’t wait to see him, as dedicated followers of my blog will know
I’m quite a fan to say the least!
Becca and Luke returned home from
India last week. It was so lovely to have them back, we even had another
Christmas Day to celebrate as we’d missed being together the first time around.
Think they were pleased to be back but happier to finally be receiving their
presents and filling up on some good home cooking courtesy of myself and Flo! A
shopping trip to Birmingham the next day to spend some of Dad’s money also made
Becca happy! I wasn’t so happy when I slipped over in M&S though! Two
employees rushed to my aid to check if I was ok, which I was. But Mum however
suggested I should sue them, telling them my hair had all fallen out a week
later from the shock of it!
Yesterday Flo and I set off on
the train to Manchester to a salon run by Nicky Oliver, hairdresser to the
stars! I was having a wig fitting and have chosen a red/brown style, medium
length, which I’ll have cut and styled once it’s ready in a few weeks time. He
was telling us that they’re made in India, I thought if I had gone a few weeks
earlier, Becca and Luke might have been able to collect it for me!
A follow up article is planned to
be published in the local B&R paper in the next week or so, catching up on
my progress since the last article was written a number weeks back. I guess
I’ve produced enough material for the reporter to steal once again and make the
article sound decent! ;)
I had another check up on my head
last week too. The doctor was happy with how it was looking, so much so that he
doesn’t want to see me again until my treatment finishes and I’m ready to have
the Wayne Rooney style treatment to sort my hair out (hopefully!).
To keep myself busy, I have been
reading books. The latest being by Katie Piper – the young British girl who survived a horrendous
ordeal of rape and acid attack in 2008. She’s such an inspiration, having been
so brave and by turning something negative into a positive, setting up a
charity to help other burns survivors. Her books are brilliant and if you get a
chance to read them do. It puts things into perspective, there’s always someone
worse off than yourself and it teaches you to be grateful for the little things
in life and not take things for granted.
Florence and I have been trying
to eat and drink healthily. We have decided we eat well in terms of having
enough vegetables in our diet; however our fruit intake has a lot to be
desired! Especially for me and the nightmares I have regarding the baked banana
incident!! So we decided we must increase our intake through the next best
thing, fruit juices! We already had a routine of drinking orange juice each
morning; however Flo now makes me have an apple and mango in the afternoon and
grape in the evening! There’s no escaping it!
I decided that we should try and
increase our fitness levels too, I haven’t really done much exercise expect
walking since my second operation in October and although Flo owns a t-shirt
saying ‘Just Do It’, really she says ‘Just Don’t Bother!’ I attended a Hip-Hop
dance class the other night and Flo and I went to a Ballroom/Latin class last
night, which were great fun! Strictly Come Dancing eat your heart out! It took
me a lot of effort to persuade Mum to go, as I make her take the lead role and
pretend to be the man! She wanted me to ask the local butcher, who she jokes she’s
going to fix me up with. I told her, well I am partial to meat and two veg, as
long as he doesn’t have two left trotters! On that note I think I should
probably go and get myself ready for my fourth session of chemo tomorrow
morning...thanks for reading J