Back at the hospital yesterday.
FL's M-spike has risen slightly to 1.6
This is the kappa/lambda ratio which measures the activity of his Multiple Myeloma.
It is a small rise so the doctors are calm. I am calm. FL is not calm. He says he doesn't want to relapse. Err well, that's obvious honey! But he is determined that any further loss of his quality of life would be unacceptable. All or nothing, that's my FL!
But for now he is feeling well. My concern is that if his mood plummets so will his health.
Sigh.
On a lighter note... I made a complete fool of myself in the waiting room. No, it was worse than that.
A young woman with no hair asked me if I had change of £1. I was just about to open a bottle of diet pepsi, so I put it down on the arm of my chair while I reached for my bag. You can feel it coming can't you...? So, yes, I knocked the bottle onto the adjacent chair, where it bounced and EXPLODED! Diet pepsi fizzing and spraying all over the waiting room: fragile old ladies, grumpy old men, attendant nieces, daughters, children. All over everyone and everywhere.
Absolute total mortification.
FL, the young woman and I set about the cleaning process with paper towels. I went to reception to ask for a mop, but the cleaners lock the cupboard (?!). So the floor remained somewhat sticky. As someone remarked, it certainly gave everyone something to talk about. Why did it have to be me?!
I met the bald young woman later in the pharmacy. "Get away from me with that coke!" she shrieked, and then we both fell about laughing while the pharmacists gawped at us. At least I have a new friend out of all this.
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About Me
- Roobeedoo
- I live with my First Love in a rural idyll, after a lifetime in exile. In July 2007 he was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma: an incurable cancer of the blood plasma. We got married in December 2007. Carpe diem. There is lots of wind and sky where I live, which blows me away. I love reading and stitching and creating things. I have two lovely children, a dog and my First Love. The Roobeedoo Manifesto, January 2012: I hereby undertake to make all my own clothing or purchase it from ethically-minded independent designers. For now. For always.
5 comments:
Sending positive vibes FL's way. The pepsi thing is exactly the kind of thing I would do... at least you found someone to laugh about it with :o)
However you are likely to be remembered as "coke lady" from now on, hmmmm that doesn't sound too good does it?!!
Hope everything works out ok with FL. More good vibes on the way, so between Ruth and myself something good should happen.
Also, to continue our special twin saga - I once opened a bottle of coke that had been cooling in the freezer in the staff room, only for it to explode. I was lucky it didn't take my jaw bone off, but as it was, it just made a room full of library staff nearly wet themselves with fear first, then nearly wet themselves with laughter as I mopped the ceiling...
I have no exploding soda stories to tell. I feel inferior!
However, let FL know that the numbers go up and down, and the samples aren't always measured identically. Minor changes might mean nothing.
Loved the coke story.
Sending best wishes for FL.
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