Cancer 141

I am abroad! After my 25th round of chemo I have taken a six week break, which means I am going to be poison free until towards the end of October. I have learned how to flush my lines so that I don’t need the district nurse for a few weeks. My medical bags are enormous, as I have to travel with heart drugs, stoma equipment, line flushing equipment (6 syringes each time), and miscellaneous drugs to keep me pain free, diarrhoea free and sickness free, etc.

It would all be a bit much for an aeroplane but I am thinking about that for the future.

The ferry from Harwich was horrible. I think my seasickness tablets might interact badly with the rest of them, as I have been struggling a little with food (a new concept for me). I cannot struggle with food in Germany, cuisine central of the world!

We are currently in a small town in Lower Saxony, planning to arrive at the coast tomorrow. Driving is much more tiring than it used to be, 200-250 miles a day seems to be my limit. Pathetic really, when my record is 1500 miles in 24 hours, from Sarajevo back, when also my brakes didn’t work. No one needed brakes in Bosnia then though.

We are away for three weeks, back at the beginning of September. This includes two weeks in a house on the island of Rugen, not far from Peenemunde….