A couple more from the collection. King Of The Bundle is Ken. Armadeep is The Balloon Man. Top ‘Dad’ entertainment doesn’t get any better than this.
Archive for August, 2008
Not too much happening this week at the hospital. We’re still waiting to receive news of our first chemo session. We believe it’ll be late next week. Prior to that, there’re more scans and some radiotherapy to endure. Nicola is still fine and sleeping well. Thanks Helen S, for getting Nicola out for the evening, an extremely beneficial trip to the cinema. More please. Michael Caine is in The Dark Knight and for trivia buffs, did you know Caine was a child refugee during WW2 and lived in Wargrave? Not really an appropriate name given the circumstances.
We’re now back after our camping extravaganza. Six families (plus a family of part-timers (they were the clean ones) and fifteen children ascended to Radnage for the weekend. Despite one night of rain, we all had tremendous fun. The awards are as follows: Best Bath Chair – Dennis, Best Cakes & Buns – Katy, Best Balloons – Armadeep, Best John Deer Outfit – David, King Of The Bundle – Ken. We also hold no responsibility whatsoever for introducing Jane to spirits whilst camping. Thanks go to Catherine and Mark for supplying us with some gas for the odd cuppa.
It’ll not be long before he’ll be high diving in the Olympics. This post is a day late but a fun day was had by all yesterday. Nic made a Thomas The Cake, and yes, there’s always a swiss roll involved. Most of the celebrations will take place today but we had a fun time with the Wilkinsons at The Stonor Craft Fair, a rural retail park. I particularly liked all the ‘Do you need cashback’ signs at the entrance. Thanks to Pete, Ange and Korben for sharing (or at least showing us) their picnic rugs. I’ve never seen a human being consume so many cocktail sausages Peter.
Yes, feast your eyes. Nigh on sixteen years ago. This will be going in the Gallery. If you have any photos you wish to contribute please send them. Thanks to those of you who contributed so far, they’ll be uploaded soon.
If any of you thought I was a moody b*gger now I think the evidence speaks for itself. I’m currently searching the house for more.
Zeugmatography is originally the name they wanted to use, obviously someone in the team was an avid scrabble player. The good old public however always love a TLA so it became the MRI. Nic had one early yesterday morning. Although I accompanied her, I didn’t see it for myself. She said only a few things about it. When they turned the machine on, the staff ran frantically as they could out of the room. They told her not to look into the lasers therefore she looked into the lasers. It made a noise. The scan was to try and find evidence of any cancer in her pelvis and abdomen. We get the result next week. Outside I was left with my usual companions, a pile of dated magazines many featuring Chamberlain, Nigel Mansell or Joe Dolce on the cover. I did find a July 2008 edition of a SAGA magazine. Is Joan Bakewell no longer ‘the thinking man’s crumpet”? – I blame Pinter myself. I’ve decided to secretly deposit magazines in the umpteen waiting rooms when we next visit. If you have any unwanted mags (don’t worry Andy your entire collection of Nuts is safe) please drop them by, leave them on the doorstep etc. I’m sure they’ll be very appreciated. Even weekend newspaper supplements will do. Thank you.
Oops. My father could never remember the date of my birthday. I vowed that if I were to ever have children I wouldn’t ever do this. Reuben’s birthday is the 22nd NOT 25th. As Darth Vader said “It is your destiny”. No comments please.
Well, they do say it’s best served cold on a plate. After an hour and a half with the consultant, we were told the following. The results from last Thursday’s investigative surgery showed a small trace of cancer in one out of the three lymph nodes that were sampled – this in some ways is good as this suggests the cancer hasn’t spread to other parts of the body. The best course of action for us is a cocktail of: chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy and hormone treatment. We will start with chemo in the next two weeks. Nicola will be subjected to two types of chemo – FEC and Docetaxel. The whole process will last 4 months. How responsive Nicola is to the chemo at any stage during its course will deter the severity of the surgery. You can read up on chemotherapy if you wish via the cancer backup site listed on the right, I might write more about this soon. There is a one in twenty chance the chemo will reduce the cancer to nothing.That’s all for today as I need to inhale pillow fibre. Thanks today goes to Ann, especially when the lemon cake appeared. Also to Ross, who enabled me to lose myself this evening for a curry in Cookham with Mr Wilkinson, Mr Sale, and Mr Sutton who were all impeccably behaved and brilliant company (thanks for the taxi service Chris). Thanks also to Graeme for his touching email. First thing tomorrow we have a CT scan, didn’t Dylan sing about parking meters?
A few crazy pictures have now appeared in the ‘Ha Ha’ section. Most are features from the Great Yarmouth Wax Museum. Enjoy.
We don’t really know where the wild things are. But we did go to Cotswold Wildlife Park with Wendy Grandma yesterday where the docile things are. We’ve been a few times, the penguins and meerkats always go down well (boom boom). All Reuben was interested in was the train – no surprises there.
