I guess it was almost inevitable... The moment everyone left us on Sunday, Diana and I came down with the lurgy. It's laid Diana pretty low , me less so; but it's definitely not nice! Both now on antibiotics, and my treatment day's been postponed to early next week - the first time ever in 12 months, which I guess is quite remarkable.
But I am delighted to say one of our children has come back to help, both practically (shopping!) and emotionally: because I can't afford to get too physically close to Diana (our symptoms are not the same) means it's hard helping her - and not being able to touch her has been really tough to take. Needless to say, his presence has been a real filip, and we both seem to be on the mend at last.
While the last few days has been a challenge, before falling properly ill I did manage to get myself to hospital for my post-SERT scans (MRI and CT), so am still on track for the results in 2 weeks time.
And does every cloud have a silver lining? This one may - I now have 4 "extra" days before more chemo. Assuming we continue to improve, I'm going to enjoy them! Particularly given the GREAT NEWS I had on Monday: almost all my "vital signs" are as good as they have been in 6 months! Red cells - a shade below your normal range! White cells - in the normal range! And best of all, my CEA number lower than it's been since May, and the third lowest ever!!
So maybe, just maybe, after a shaky start, 2015 will turn out to be a good year after all! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Ian, I wasn't familiar with the term LURGY, so I looked it up in the Urban Dictionary.
ReplyDelete"Approximate British equivalent of the American playground term cooties, meaning a fictitious, yet highly infectious disease. Unlike cooties, now used by adults to refer to an general undefined infectious malady.
Normally used in the form "the dreaded lurgy".
The term originates from an episode of the 1950s radio comedy "The Goon Show" in which an epidemic of "The Dreaded Lurgi" was said to be about to sweep across Britain. It turned out that the lurgi was in fact a ficitious disease created by brass instrument makers who had claimed that no brass band player had ever died of the lurgi (thereby increasing sales hugely)."
Gil