Back on line

OK, so it has been a little time and at least one of you out there is waiting for this post (thank you Lyn), but to be honest I have not had the inclination to post and when I have I have had to fight the kids for computer time. Well this weekend Adam is away and the other two are in their bedrooms so now is my time.

Its not been a bad month (for me). Docetaxl doesn't seem to wipe Tracey out quite as much as FEC, even her hair has started to grow back, so things are a little better. And we have just gone through the last dose so by Christmas  the pain and suffering of chemo should be behind us (there I go again, when I say we and us I mean Tracey). Only radio therapy, hormone therapy and the continual worry about recurrence of the disease to go through. That should last us for the rest of our lives.

The good bit is that I won't have to watch Tracey going downhill again in the new year. Today, the day after chemo, Tracey's face is very red and she didn't have a good nights sleep. We share this experience by me having all the sleep she missed so I now feel brilliant and well rested. She is hot and aching. over the next few days she will go off her food and there is the risk of infection. We will all walk on egg shells as she gets more and more tetchy. I will try and keep out of the way. But by Christmas this will be over, no more chemo, end of, finito. I can't tell you how good that feels.

Just because I haven't posted doesn't mean we haven't done anything, indeed last weekend we had our first Christmas meal of the season with Tracey's dad, David and his wife Heather. And a fine fare it was too, much food and a little drink with Party hats but no presents. Cooked by my beautiful wife to perfection.

And of course there has been the weather, just a bit. Not the bleak mid winter of northern climes but a dusting of snow and ice. I managed to get Tracey out for an afternoon walk along the canal and of course took just 1 or 2 photos.

This was taken in my favourite spot where I have taken the photos of Adam



An icy canal



Icy trees



The funny thing is that on these walks you sometimes come across things that you don't expect. For my last photo I have captured a few remnants of Wiltshire County Council that haven't yet been re-branded, long may they remain so.  

Elsewhere I have not seen my car for a month, it seems to be Livi's at the moment. I drop the boys off at school in the big car and Livi gets to keep my car. It has been places I don't want to know about. On the few occasions I have had access to it I get pinned to the seat by the volume of the CD/radio when I start it up.

There has been little to no rugby, Vaughan stays in his bedroom trying to avoid human contact. Adam is on a Duke of Edinburgh thing. Both the boys are extremely annoying when they are together, or am I just old and bad tempered?

Thank you students for showing that the British still do have it in them to protest, my MP who is a Lib/Dem, will never get my vote and I shall be voting against AV, partly because the only purpose of the system suggested is to produce a three party system not a two party one so the Lib/Dems are always in power and mainly to stick up 2 fingers at Clegg. Bring on the revolution.

Chris x