The Good and The Bad

Clinic day today. It was good. Dinner in the slow cooker so no rushing around when we get home if we are delayed. No traffic jams to sit in..good music on the radio..an almost empty car park so found a space straight away. Perfect 🙂

We had the usual waiting around scenario in which we people watched ( note to husband ; sit somewhere where you can see properly next time so your neck isn’t on a constant pivot and you don’t give yourself whiplash ) and listened to other peoples conversations.

All hubbys SATs are spot on. Called into the consultants room to discuss..um..all the normal stuff. How are you feeling? Any rashes? Energy levels ok? How’s the GVHD?  Sent away with another prescription for more steroid mouthwash to keep said GVHD under control in the hope he can have another DLI soon to blast those remaining pesky cancer cells away. The best bit. BCR-ABL is still under control. Not dropping massively but not going up massively either . Perfect. Then to top it off…We don’t have to return until the end of October!

That’s almost a whole MONTH!!!

That man of mine is a superhero ❤

That was the good.

The bad?                           Me!

I started really well. No smoking. Im sort of hoping that most people will of got bored and stopped reading by now so I can hang my head in shame alone. I’d love to say it wasn’t my fault but lets be honest. I had a choice. Dammit!

We popped in to see a friend on the way home. He is giving up alcohol for October. https://www.gosober.org.uk/ We decided between us ( in the way that someone who doesn’t drink or smoke wouldn’t understand) that as he had some booze left and I had some tobacco left that what we should actually do is finish everything that we collectively have today and start afresh tomorrow. I , in my moment of wisdom decided that actually that would be fine because the tobacco cost me money and the booze cost him.. that’s a massive waste of money. Also Stoptober is a 28 day challenge.https://stoptober.smokefree.nhs.uk/

October has 31 days! Therefore if they really expected people to succeed immediately then they would of made it a 31 day challenge. ( logical to me )

So together we will start again tomorrow. Don’t judge me. I am at least trying. And if my superhero can achieve everything he has, this in comparison should be easy!!

I promise 🙂