Wish me luck ...

[Joan]

Joan, thanks for the update - I love reading them. The positiveness of them put my early morning 'urgg' right out of the window and makes me feel good for the day!

It's good that the chemo treatment is coming to an end - you can restart those get-out-of-bed hand-springs that you do so well!

As Kate would say ... "Like that's going to happen!" LOL

[Joan]

Joan, I agree with everything that Vulture has said, with one exception. I never have an early morning 'urgg'.

You have a fascinating writing style, by the way! 

You're very lucky, Tom, never to have an early morning 'urgg'.  Even in normal circumstances, I've never been very good in the mornings.  I have improved with age, but when I was young, I was terrible, especially at home with the family.  When I went to New Zealand for 6 months to stay with relations, my mother wrote to them and apologised for me being so grumpy in the mornings!

Thanks, no one's ever described my writing like that before - I've always thought that people probably fall asleep half way through, I tend to waffle on at length. 

[Roger Kettle]

Glad to hear the treatment is coming to an end, Joan---it sounds pretty awful. If ever I needed proof that women are tougher than men (and I didn't), you have removed all doubt. I'd be sucking my thumb in a corner somewhere, removing it occasionally to scream "WHY ME?"
Hope the recovery continues. Take care.

[Diamond Lil]

I'll be thinking of you on Wednesday. 
I've been laid low off and on this month with a "virus" and some days I just felt yeuch...and then I read your update and can say you are now officially my heroine!

[Joan]

Lil and Roger - I wish you could have seen me 2 weeks ago (no, I don't). My sister likened it to going through labour in that afterwards, your mind tends to block out the really bad bits so you forget just how bad it was - until the next time! 

[Diamond Lil]

..so... a re-run of labour will block out most of March?  You think?

[Fyodor]

I'll be thinking of you on Wednesday. 
I've been laid low off and on this month with a "virus" and some days I just felt yeuch...and then I read your update and can say you are now officially my heroine!

Me too, Joan (thinking of you on Wednesday).
Does this mean you have deheroinised me, Lil?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Be well, Joan!   

[Malc]

Hope you're roaring fit and back to normal in double quick time, Joan

[Diamond Lil]

Does this mean you have deheroinised me, Lil?

...is that what you meant when you said you had drugs for sale?  I thought it was paracetamol, so didn't bother to negotiate

[Joan]

Thanks, everyone.    Just off to have a blood test to make sure my counts have come back up.  Rainy day here today and looks like it's going to continue for the next few days.  At least it's cooled down a bit - was getting very humid like summer, not nice.

[Diamond Lil]

It's cooled down here a bit too..snowing this morning!

[Bilthehut]

It's raining ... again!

[Fyodor]

Does this mean you have deheroinised me, Lil?

...is that what you meant when you said you had drugs for sale?  I thought it was paracetamol, so didn't bother to negotiate

Whatever.

[Malc]

They've tried giving aspirins as blood thinners to all birds at London Zoo, but the parrots eat 'em ol.