1st weekend of June!

Thursday 1st June 2017 - I have been looking forward to today for at least a week! Woke up after a good nights sleep and got myself ready to be picked up at 11.30a.m. by a friend who I have 'bumped into' but not had the chance to really catch up with for years! The sun is shining and I feel quite well and as I look in the mirror (not a great sight these days!!!!) I realise that the daily walks are paying off - where my skin on my thighs had just hung (sad but true!!) after being in hospital and my muscles had just wasted away, they suddenly look more like they used to! and I can feel that the muscles are building up. Makes me feel better about myself. Once ready I eagerly await my friend who arrived on the dot at 11.30 and we set off for Holbrook Compasses - really lovely country pub.
As it was such a lovely day we took our drinks and menu into the garden. We chatted and chatted! By the time we hesitated to draw breath and look at the menu it was gone 1 o'clock! We had such a lovely time and my friend dropped me off home again at about 3.30p.m.! We had had a most enjoyable lunch and catch up and have promised ourselves we will do it again once I am well enough after surgery. Spent the evening resting in front of the TV, tired but it was so worth it - I had such a wonderful day!
Friday 2nd June 2017 - Quite an uneventful day - my car was collected for Service and not due back til Monday so spent the day at home with Sam helping me to do one or two chores so Reno doesn't have to do them at the weekend! Also spent some time looking after my nails. The chemotherapy has, over the time, affected them quite badly - they appear quite brown and are ridged and the lighter piece of nail above the cuticles is spreading up the nail. Some look like I may even lose them altogether - small price to pay given that the chemotherapy has done it's stuff!! Have bought some O.P.I. treatments so we'll see if they help.
Saturday 3rd June 2017 - Had a lie in this morning! Woke at 4.30a.m. then when back off to sleep at around 6.45 a.m. and woke again at 9a.m.! so made myself a cuppa and some breakfast and took it back to bed! Reno arrived home at around 11 and I was still there! Well sometimes you just have to do it don't you?!? Eventually showered and dressed etc. and was up and about in time for lunch! After lunch did the weekly shop with Reno although as usual this finished me off again and by the time I got home another nap was required! Spent a very lazy evening in front of the TV again!
Sunday 4th June 2017 - Decided to go to church today as I am hoping to go to visit the Cambridge Ruskin University next Saturday with Reno and Sam so I know that next Sunday I will need to rest for the bulk of the day. After lunch Reno and I took a walk along the waterfront in Ipswich (just to keep my legs working) as it was such a lovely afternoon. I cooked the evening meal - I feel more like the wife and mother I should be when I cook the meal - it still somehow doesn't feel right when I have to give in and let others do it! Before I knew it, it was time for Reno to leave to go to his lorry in Felixstowe ready for an early start tomorrow. Why do the weekends go so quickly?!? Spent the evening watching the concert put on by Ariana Grande and many other stars for the people of Manchester after the terrible bombing at her concert two weeks ago. It was fantastic - joyful, though at times, very emotional - it really made me think - I have been through a lot lately but compared to the people who lost a child, well it really doesn't compare does it - I have so much to be thankful for.
Monday 5th June 2017 - Feeling so much better this week - improving daily and feeling more like my old self - eating the same as everyone else (I would like my taste to improve still - it seems to have been ages since food tastes as I would expect - as I have said before - it's no so bad that I can't eat most things - just very distorted - few foods taste as you would expect them to - but at least I can eat which is different to a few weeks ago when everything I put in my mouth seemed to burn - so once again I am thankful for that!) and generally feeling quite well. Spending another day at home today as the boiler has to be serviced and my car is being returned. Managed to put the hoover round and sort my wardrobe today - with some help from Sam of course! Intend to spend the evening paying some more attention to my nails and yes you have guessed it...........with my feet up in front of the TV. Less than two weeks now until my surgery, so important that I am fit and well for that!