Cancer 191

Having cancer does mean having pain, some of it chronic. I am having a lot of soreness from my stoma, and problems with my abdomen, that good old bag of cancer.

These chronic pains may be the cause of yesterday’s stupidity. I filled my pill box as usual. I have 4 drugs in the morning and 5 in the evening, mostly heart tablets  and two antibiotics. I took my drugs in the morning and then, as I occasionally do, I took my food. This was a cheese souffle and cereal for breakfast, a sausage roll and half a cake for first brunch, then eggs and bacon in a Derbyshire oatcake for second brunch. After my early afternoon hot chocolate – plus small chocolate – I felt quite ill. This was unfortunate because it was calimari and Italian roast chicken for my evening meal. For the first time in history I handed over quite large parts of it to the wife. I felt proper ill.

Afterwards I went to take my daily pills and found out that instead of taking half of them in the morning, I had taken them all, so I had sort of overdosed. That explained why my guts were churning!

Ok, you might suggest that I had eaten too much and of the wrong things, and you would be right, but what worried me is that instead of filling up the pill box properly I had put all the pills on one side, and not noticed either then or when I took them in the morning. These sorts of errors could be dangerous.