I received a call this afternoon to say that the endoscopic ultrasound procedure that was scheduled for Friday has been postponed.
This was seen as a pre-cursor to my meeting with the Head of Oncology on Monday, which in turn was a pre-cursor to me starting chemotherapy.
It was suggested that an alternative date of 30th March has been pencilled in, but this seems a long way away from the laparoscopy (which was the last event on the 2nd of March).
When you don't have secondary cancer you want to keep it that way!
Unfortunately, my case nurse is not available today. I will have to wait until tomorrow to speak to her in order to get a handle on whether chemotherapy is likely to be delayed. Another case nurse suggested it can't start before the endoscopy is peformed whereas the department that will perform ithe endoscopy contradicted that view.
There is always scope for arranging the procedure at an alternative venue, but I guess not by Friday.
These sort of blips are normal and its test one's ability to keep the feelings in check.
Patience is a virtue, but tenterhooks are a pain in the butt.
Never mind mate,it will all work out for you im sure.In football terms we were 4.0 down after 20mins and we didnt know what hit us but after getting our game together we have stepped up to the game and have hit four great goals to make it 4.4 at half time and the other team is starting to fade.
ReplyDeleteWe will destroy them in the second half if we continue to play this possive and creative way,we need to stay focussed on the job in hand and score a few more goals.
Talk about belly button fluff being something to get embarrassed about but imagine talking to two girls outside a niteclub in Ibiza and in the middle of talking to these girls a thing comes out of your mouth and lands on one of the girls shoulders and starts to shake like the nutty professors bottom,now that would make the ground open up and you would jump in .
Nice try Notoplip. I think your memory has faded though because the contents of that week of debauchery actually landed bang in the middle of my chest.
ReplyDeleteIt came out in slow motion with six pairs of eyes trained on its flight.
Yes we have all had embarrassing moments but, pray, allow me to retort!
What about the time in Ibiza when I was living out there for summer and you came over for the "Boxer's" stag.
Do you remember how you went out drinking for the night whilst I stayed in to go clubbing Sunday morning.
Well there I was, all snuggly tucked up in my little room, snoring contently and there you were roaming the streets of San Antonio.
I say "roaming", but that only lasted for a while. The rest of the time, I seem to recall you telling me that you were sat down some side street on the pavement with your trousers around your ankles suffering from "involuntary peristalsis".
I also seem to remember distinctly, you bowling in at about 6:30am saying, "thank god I made it. I was praying that you would come and find me".
Needless, to say I went clubbing on the Space Terrace all day and you wallowed in your pit.
Still, all credit to you, you were fit for a Sunday night session.
Good lad.