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G'day all! Another early morning post 8-} This really is another post for me, or anyone else going through chemo, just to say what is "normal" for me. One of the side effects of something to do with the chemo is poor sleep during the first week after it. I tend to wake up every two hours, whether or not I need to pee. It could be the dexa, it could just be the chemo. Hence another early morning post! (I wish I could sleep like these two!) A new side effect I've discovered is what I suspect are hot flushes. Oh joy! I get awfully hot in bed even though it is fr-eezing out of bed (3C outside, roughly 14C above DH's computer and I suspect less in the uncomputerised bedroom). At the same time as being hot, if I stick too many bits out of bed, I feel rather chilled. If I don't, I overheat to the point of technically needing to go to the hospital cos I am running a fever, though the "fever" abates if I get out of bed. I amnot getting the drenching s...

G'day all! It's nearly 6am local time as I type this. I reckon I should record some stuff so that I can remember what it was like to be on chemo, warts and all. I was taken off dexa with my last chemo. This time around I had a dexa infusion before the taxotere. Oh boy could I feel the dexa kicking in over the course of the day. I was very relaxed, almost drowsy before it and then about 90 minutes later, I was flying! Whee! Blah blah blah, jitter jitter. Red face kicked in a bit later. The odd thing about the dexa red face is that it hangs around for DAYS afterwards. Every time I get the least bit warm, BOOM! I look like I've been out in the sun a bit too much, no make that a lot too much. I feel hot to the point of taking my hat off! The reason I am up at the crack of not yet dawn is that I'm hot. I was cold when I went to bed, and at about 4am I was overheating. (I sometimes wonder if the overheating is a hot flush.) Red face had kicked in again along wi...

G'day all! I'm done! My neutrophils where "lovely" and I've had my last round of chemo. My PICC line is out (that was funny) and now I can work on getting better. HOORAY! Who is queen? Who is pleased? (Who forgot to take pics of the six pairs of fingerless mitts she made? That would be ME! Doh! I guess I'll put them up on Ravelry as a batch. And no bedjacket pics cos it was a bit brr at the gardens yesterday and today it is raining on and off again, with the odd bit of hail...) Here's to an eventual return to good health :-) anon!

G'day all! Still pictureless - I've been busy looking at everyone else's blogs and pics rather than getting pics. My bad! Today we had a lovely trip to the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, and in particular the Australian Garden. I have lots of pics, not necessarily great shots mind you but lots of pics to edit when I have a little more time. My big sister picked us up and shouted us lunch and all. It were luverly. I've been knitting madly. Still haven't finished one of a pair of fingerless mitts. I've only knitted six pairs all up and one has already found a new home. I have to make up labels and stuff for all of them. Yikes! Tomorrow, assuming my bloods are good, is my last chemo! HOORAY! I hope my white cells have come up cos I've been croaky for over a week now. I hope it is just the chemo and not a virus cos that will probably knock out my chemo. DH has a cold today. I'm sleeping on the couch tonight with at least one cat to keep me company....

G'day all! I have news! But I am not going to say what it is until it is confirmed. It is good news though. Any guesses? We are still throttled on our internet connection so I still do not have pics for you. Also it has been FREEZING (not literally, at least not where we live though it feels like it has been!) and I don't have any pics of anything modelled or even sitting on the crappy old couch outside. Yesterday it blew a gale, even though it was sunny, and temps didn't even reach 10C, today has been windy and rainy (wind still coming from the northwest though, sorta unusual for a rainy day) and again it hasn't even reached 10C. 9C and it feels like 5C - almost as cold as a fridge. BRRRRR! Plus it is still raining on and off after raining for something like 8 hours earlier in the day. The couch that I often use as a background for various items of clothing, etc, is soaked as the rain is coming from the north. Plus yesterday's wind was so ferocious anything...

G'day all! Another weekend is done. Stick a fork in it! Umm, what did we do? Umm... well yesterday we annoyed the PiLs a bit, Nathan did some organ practice, FiL helped DH with some household stuff, had home made burgers with the PiLs, then today went to the "local" farmers' market, Nathan played organ (and presumably piano but not at the same time!) at the church, DH helped PiLs clear a spot for a concrete slab to be poured for the new water tank, lunched and dined at the PiL's, I knitted five handwarmers of assorted colours, but best of all? We went on a steam train! (But since I had forgotten today was train day I didn't take the camera, boo hoo! No pics until FiL downloads his pics.) It was fun! I got to stick my head out the window and get covered in cinders! My sunglasses protected my eyes from cinders and from the wind. Lots of choofing. Lots of steam. An engine at either end of the carriages. It went mighty slow up some of the hills though - i...

G'day all! It is 10 years since Nathan and I started going out, as we term it in Australia. My goodness, what a lot has changed since then, and what a lot hasn't. Oh my. How young we both are - this pic is almost 10 years old, taken somewhere around the Otways (southwest of Melbourne, about 2 hours drive from the city). (Excuse the size of the pics - flickr has changed the way it does stuff and I have to work out how to resize them nicely, ie proportionately? Is that the word? I'll blame chemobrain for this little bout of aphasia. I guess I could always just use the calculator...) I know Nathan is half out of the shot but this is still one of my favourite pictures of us. It was taken on a totally brilliant day in the Rocky Mountain National Park up on the Trail Ridge Road. We had lots of awesome drives around the Rockies (and one drive memorable for the sheer terror it inspired in me - you would not believe where I punted a very small car. (It probably only made it...