Day 14 - All over town

Jun 27 (Day 14 of Cycle 4)


My nose is running again and my head feels heavy on one side. I did not feel fit enough to go walking this morning and decided not to push my luck and instead stayed in all morning.


I realise that Azean Irdawaty of the Datin Diaries series on local tv is going to have her mastectomy done today. I pray for her and for anyone else undergoing similar surgeries and hope everything from here on will run smoothly for them. I would visit her if she is in KLH but it seems she has checked into the hospital in Putrajaya.


After saving up my energy in the morning, I spent all afternoon going to Rawang with a couple of buddies to check out on a couple of things. It was just as well I wasn't driving as I started sneezing all over again and my nose was running and my eyes teary. I must have used up almost a whole box of Kleenex. It's more like an allergy rather than flu.


I had asked Vik to defrost a pack of minced beef and brown them with garlic and chopped onions while I was gone. When I got back we got a nice ragu sauce going for a simple pasta dinner. I taught her how to make a mixed fruit and vegetable salad using carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, green apples, raisins, cashews and almonds with a storebought honey musteard salad dressing. She is becoming quite good and cooked the spaghetti just nice, al dente. I hope the beefy sauce will help with my blood count.


Tomorrow I will need an early start as I have to be in Wangsa Maju by 8 am on some personal errands. So I will need to retire early. Which is just as well as all the sneezing is really squeezing the wind out of my sails. I hope I will be back in time to get to the Medical Center to review Vik's medical report that will be ready by 12 noon tomorrow. I hope everything is fine and that the reports will reconfirm the medical clearance given by Fomema earlier.


My chemo arm is still sore and the daily massage with Minyak Gamat and Minyak Pala continues....I pray and hope that it will be ready and receptive for the next chemo cycle next week. My nails have not gone all blue, just partially, loking as though I have stained them with blue ink. In fact some of them look as though I have just caught my fingers in a door which have just been banged shut. They look kind of "dirty" looking. I have some henna in a tube that I could apply I suppose to make my nails look more appealing.


What I am so thankful for is that except on a few rare occasions due to gastritis, I have been able to enjoy a good night's sleep on most nights, and that I am aware, is very important for recovery. Insya Allah I hope this will continue. I am quite used to all the discomfort from the various chemo side-effects and so far the ones that really nagged at my sense of wellbeing are the thrombo veins in my chemo arm and my sore bottom. I hope these will improve over time, and not indicative of anything more serious. Nauzubillah.