So far, so good

I've been home for a full week now and things are largely under control if I ignore the mess everywhere. Boxes and boxes of tube-food, machinery with wires all over the place, dozens of packages of medication.... But it's good to be in my own four walls and I'm settling into a good routine now.

My first check-up at the hospital since leaving it was this afternoon. Everything seems to be in order and healing slowly. It's still too early to see whether the leak is closing properly or not but the indications are that things are moving in the right direction. I have the weekend to myself and then I have the second oncology session on Monday.

I took a photo of myself this afternoon, thinking that I'll be able to look back and laugh about it in a few months' time.

The next appointments on the list are with the oncologists on Monday - no doubt the next dose of antibody treatment - and then the speech pathologist on Wednesday to try to get the "TruTone" electronic speech aid under control. You can see how good it is once you become proficient at using it by calling it up on YouTube. Just enter "TruTone" as the search word. If I can become that proficient within the next couple of months, I shall be most pleased.

I intend to get back into working mode from 1st March, although very selectively. I don't want any professional stress now - I've got enough to deal with medically - but I also need the income and am missing the job as a freelance translator. It will keep me out of other mischief....!

That's it for now. Thank you for all the supportive comments here and elsewhere. I have been very selfish these past few months. Although I've been reading the postings on CancerChat and a couple of the other blogs, I haven't contributed to any of them. I hope that will gradually change now.

All the best to my many fellow sufferers.