Friday night's sleep into Saturday was fantastic, only woke up the once and didn't have my sore back that I've been having, which again makes me think that it is the swollen glands that are causing it, rather than the bone pain that I thought the last couple of days. You never know it may be a mix of both. But then I've been having this back pain for a couple of years, so have I had the swollen glands for a few years too? Surely it would have been picked up on before now though. Either way what's done is done and it getting fixed now.
During the night I did feel a little nauseous but wasn't too bad, just frustrating as I knew I wasn't going to be sick or anything but just that feeling. When I did get up in the morning I was very flush and red faced, this was from the steroids and felt a little pudgier too, but I did have that steroid high, was on the highest dose that I've ever been on, twice as much as what I had ever been on before the chemo.
While having breakfast my Uncle who is over visiting from Australia was watching the Aussie rules football from earlier that morning. I had watched it a few times but think I learnt more in that one match than all the others I had ever watched combined, didn't realise you can't get sent off! But after you can get banned for a number of matches. Most of the day I was feeling pretty good and mentally was in a really good form and almost felt normal. Started making a few stop motion videos with the coins again to kill some time. But got quite tired and nauseous towards the evening again, so this is probably with the chemo. To be fair of all the problems I could be having with it and normally have, this is nothing. Long may it continue.
When the evening came my lips seemed to get a funny flavour a distasteful one, so just kept cleaning my teeth and using my mouthwash and it seemed to distract my taste buds from it and soon forgot about it. Was watching the new Star Trek film and started hearing fireworks so jumped up to the window and started recording them, they were from the BBC Proms thing down near the Titanic building, after that watched the rest of the film and a bit of the IT Crowd and went to bed.
Another good sleep was had and only woke up a couple times but got to sleep again very fast compared to normal, thankfully my back was ok again this morning and so I had a bit of a lie in too. But today I felt a lot more drained and tired, I had planned to do a bit of exercise as a release with the tablets but I didn't need to do that or have the energy to try it and felt a little nauseous again after taking my tablets.
The day passed with doing very little, something similar to yesterday, was in a good mood but didn't do much and it flew in, although I think it's down to someone that I've been chatting with and taking my mind off things and it's been greatly appreciated. In the evening I was playing around with the Kindle Fire and looking up a few different books. I was looking down the maths ones and had a check on a few that were free for the Prime members but normal members would have to pay for... I was shocked to see how simple some of the things were that people weere paying at least £1 a pop for, I have better notes stored on my phone from when I was writing notes for a website that I never bothered to actually really work on. So during the night I was having a think about starting up with that again. I was now very tired and felt very nauseous even with taking my anti-sickness tablet.
On Monday morning when I woke up it suddenly occurred to me, the only times that I've been feeling nauseous is after I take the anti-sickness tablets, so I have now stopped taking them and have felt fine since. But then again I was feeling much better today than what I had been the previous couple of days. I never really noticed at the time but comparing how I felt today, I actually felt very rough over the weekend. A dream I had last night that I remember was that I had lost all my hair but when it grew back it was blonde, blonde like it was when I was a kid and going in to teach and no one recognising me. As long as my beard is left as it is, I don't care about the rest.
But today we had family over visiting for a while in the morning and I had decided that I was going to go for a walk, needed to go to the chemist so that was on the way to town and that's where I went. But when I got to the Waterfront I thought, "that wasn't so hard, what do I do now...?" so I walked round town a little and then walked the long way home, round Ormeau, started getting quite sore from about half way home but was glad of this and it made me feel like I'd actually done something other than sit on my butt all day like I have been the last week or so. Tomorrow won't be quite as extravagant but I'm sure I'll do something. When I got home I started organising my notes that I had for the website to get that started up again and to work through it, even if it is just to give me something to do, but will keep my brain working a bit more.
Just before dinner I got a call from my GP and they were asking if I still wanted to see a dermatologist, which I had asked about a fair few months ago, at least six, well before any of the lymphoma stuff had came about. I said yes and I mentioned about having the lymphoma and she was silent, had a look over the notes that she had and said "we have no record of that". This no longer surprises me from that place and I told her that I'd been on the chemo for over 10 weeks now. They must have thought the inhaler had fixed whatever was wrong with me and lost the letter I took round to them explaining about starting the chemo and having a virus and that's what the problem was with the chest. So anyway they'll be getting me to see a dermatologist to check any moles for signs of skin cancer.. haha!!
Had a nice dinner with my Aunt and Uncle that are over and my Mum and Dad. It was a nice night but was very tired after the walk today and found it hard to concentrate what was going on so had to go up to my room and was playing around on the computer for a while and thought I'd start on this rather than letting it all pile up like on previous days and forgetting a lot of stuff. But I'm rather tired now so night.