Saturday 28th April Birthdays and Relief

It is my mother’s 85th birthday today and I am very relieved that I will not be spending it in hospital!

Yesterday I had the CT scan and although I am no further forward with the pain I am experiencing, they have ruled out anything serious like a hole in my join where they did the procedure. They did find out that the liquid dye goes out of my stomach into my duodenum and then back into my stomach and then down to the intestine. The surgeon was not worried about this, but I do not really understand the significance of this. So I am back on being able to eat – I was starving after only water for 31 hours! Even soup, ice lollies and Fortisip juice was good under those circumstances!

I am able to eat soft food for the next few weeks and instructed to be careful. The best news is that Mark and I should be able to go to Verona for the weekend of the 11th/12th and 13th May to see Sam Smith.

Today we are going to Hove to taste Audrey’s chocolates and buy a few for my mother – she loves the Fortnum and Mason violet creams and they make them for F&M. So we thought she might like to see what other flavours she likes. This evening we are going to The Duke of York Cinema in Brighton to see “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”. It is definitely better than being on TPN at The County!!

This did test my optimism, but back to my positive self, although still with an unaccountable abdominal pain! If the pain does not get better I might go and get a second opinion on all my treatment elsewhere.

Hopefully I will not be blogging for a few days as I have nothing to say medically, and I will be eating and drinking normally and happily getting back to full energy and fitness. My next appointments are with Mr Lamah on 10/5/18 and a genetics consultant at the Marsden as they were interested in me as Rowena also has a rare sarcoma on 11/5/18.