Just a week until we see Dr Forgeson, the specialist from Palmerston North who will come up and design my chemo cocktail - it will be a version of the RChop regime. Ha ha since my nickname as a kid was Chop (hence 222choppy was my radio call sign when I was playing radio announcers. Yes I did all the singing and the news broadcasts.) There will be 6 treatments in a 3 weekly cycle. So I have ordered 6 Agatha Raisin Detective books from the book registry. They are very light reading. Duncan will order 6 bottles of (good) champagne for us to have as each cycle is completed. Although they do say my taste buds will be affected and it will have a slightly metallic effect. We were very pleased when Jill found some information that alcohol has a slightly protective effect from Lymphoma. I am saving all the easy puzzles in my sudoku book for chemo days. It is 6-8 hours for treatment no1, then 4-6 hours for each successive cycle.
Liz and Barry were down last weekend, and Liz bought me her wig block. Her wig she called "The opossum" and advised me to spend a bit of my own money to add to the government grant to get one which doesn't look like roadkill.
At present my neck is very swollen as I have a bit of an infection in my mouth. It makes me realise how careful I will have to be once treatment starts.
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