I thought Chemo was supposed to make you feel crap?
Saturday morning I had a bit of a lie in, first in a while that I've been able to without my back waking me up or being sore, think this would mean that the back pain may be gland related, I hope so as this would be much preferred to the alternative. Wasn't a massive lie in but the extra hour or so was great. Hadn't made any plans for today, as the Premier League was starting up again today and wanted to just sit around and watch that, since it was announced that BT Sport was going to be on Virgin Media and that Sky Sports was free today. This meant I got to see the Liverpool game in the afternoon and the United game in the evening. Both of which won... which sucks and Arsenal lost, to Villa.
Generally I felt pretty good today, my glands had all went down and didn't feel rough at all, basically I felt normal, didn't want to go out for a walk or anything just to make sure things would settle after the chemo. One thing I discovered though, was that the lump at the top of my leg has not went down, it appears that it hasn't anything to do with the lymphoma and could in fact be a hernia. But only time will tell. The evening I tried watching Agora and got around half way into it and the DVD that Lovefilm had sent me was faulty so missed a bit in the middle, have got in contact with them about it and they're sending me another copy...
Sunday I told myself I was going to have a lazy day, but had full intentions of not obeying this and doing some exercise, which turned out to be the case in the end. Afternoon, I seemed to be in my "funny half hour", kept doing silly things, one of which was turning off the plug to the kettle while the steam was coming out and putting my wrist over the steam, burnt a bit but nothing long term or serious. There were a few other things I was doing like going to the wrong drawers and cupboards etc, just general silliness and not paying attention to things.
Later in the day after I let my lunch get down me I decided to go out onto the stationary bike in the garage, was there for about an hour, felt pretty good and did do quite a workout, and then some stretches after and a few light weights. It's nice just sitting on the bike with the wireless headset on just listening to your music, the same stuff I've been listening to for years, a few newer tracks thrown in but mostly all really old stuff. After all this I weighed myself (I had weighed myself before) and I had lost 4lbs, in about two hours, I don't exactly have much to lose and that's a fairly hefty percentage that I did lose. I thought I would be putting on lots of weight not losing it.
I made up for it in the evening though and had a McDonalds and ate chocolate while watching stuff in the Insyplex and the MotoGP, Marquez running away with it again. Had been recording some of the game play I had on CS:GO and discovered I have over 300GB of footage, so felt I had to clear some of that, didn't use it all but got some, nothing special just some stuff from a few rounds, basically it's all my kills and deaths, I'm gradually getting worse at it, or everyone else is getting better.
My sleep pattern over the last few months has been quite irregular, been focusing most of the time on getting up at 8.30 at the latest, but with the sore back it had been getting me up earlier and when given the opportunity I have been sleeping in. This certainly won't help with getting a good night's sleep so I'm going to focus again on definitely getting up at 8.30 each morning and not having a nap or anything during the day and maybe going to sleep at a slightly earlier time.
My main problem at the moment is feeling so warm constantly, I can't remember the last time I was cold. I'm not running a temperature or anything, I've just got a blazing fire burning off everything inside me lately. Thankfully I haven't been the only one and been able to speak with some good friends, new and old at such crappy hours in the mornings, which has certainly cheered me up and if that fails I've got the Vita to entertain me.
I do have a feeling that this will pass soon as I start to get used to things, if possible. Plus I do enjoy it in an unusual way, the peace and quiet is relaxing and nice, rather than the continuous hustle and bustle around. Some of my finer works have came in the small hours of the mornings such as the majority of WGF songs which are now all just in the minds of the three of us. I wouldn't want to embarrass myself trying to play the guitar again, never mind singing... not yet anyway.