Happy New Year to you all, and welcome to 2011. Seeing as it’s weeks since the last blog, I’ve acquired a bunch of new followers, and people have been asking about the next update, I figured the blog ought to snap out of its New Year’s hangover and make a return.
Plenty seems to have happened since my last blog. Last time I wrote I had just finished my first chemo bout, and was waiting to see what side effects I’d be clobbered with. I’ve now just finished my second bout, and am waiting to see if the side effects will settle down into the same pattern, or whether I’ll face something entirely different.
It’s fair to say that the side effects of the first bout made me really hate this bloody disease for the first time. Overall it seems like I’ve coped with the chemo OK, so I shouldn’t complain too much, but being delivered a Boxing Day knockout blow where I hardly felt up to getting out of bed, I felt a resentment about having to put up with all this that I’ve never really felt before.
All of a sudden feeling ill wasn’t just something I put up with as a day to day occurrence – this was actually stopping me enjoying Christmas at home. Not welcome, not nice, and fortunately not something that lasted too long – just badly timed. If I’m hit with the same side effect timing this time round, it’s tomorrow morning that the inability to get out of bed will hit me – so I’m tempted to go with an extra glass of red tonight and blame it all on that instead… Realistically though, it probably means I’ve got plenty more shit days lined up to get through.
With my initial course of chemo due to last three months, I’ve got four more of these bouts to put up with before I find out what effect it is having on controlling the disease. Put that way, I’m now a third of the way through – doesn’t sound too bad, that!
Of course I couldn’t write this blog without making a couple of sporting mentions. Well done to the England side for winning the Ashes with a superb series down under. It’s been great to watch and listen to. For our Aussie friends asking us how to cope with not winning – you’ve only taken 1 win out of the last 4 Ashes series, so don’t go claiming the high ground too quickly. And there’s more to life than cricket – just think back to the 2008 Olympics and the track cycling. You took a kicking off us then as well – although I will accept that you were able to share that burden with the rest of the world on that occasion, and our ‘ringers’ were only Scots then… But maybe that’s one of the benefits of a colonial past, when people want to play for your country. Even when they can’t, they seem to want to do their best for us – witness Mitchell Johnson, bowling to the left, bowling to the right, and generally bowling sh*te…cheers cobber!
The Ashes and the FA Cup might have dominated the sports news so far this year but obviously I can’t not mention Crewe’s superb new year form. Three games, three wins, three clean sheets so far and thoughts of the play-offs and promotion are no longer daft and distant. Hopefully I can make my season debut at Gresty Road this Saturday v Port Vale – yeah yeah, big game glory hunter I know!!
That’s it for now, I’m off for that extra glass of red to tee up tomorrow’s hangover!
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