D(IEP) Day + 1

So far so good.  It is over 24 hours since I came out of theatre and I feel reasonably OK.  I will be in a high dependency unit for a couple of days, then back to a regular ward.

DIEP-Day - 2 The big clean

With the help of the house robots, I gave the house a thorough clean today.  I'm not going to be able to do housework for a while afterwards and I don't want to come back to a tip.  Gave the garden a bit of a tidy as well.

Tomorrow I will have my swimming lesson and then I will mow the lawn for the first time this year.  Then it will be packing my bags in preparation for a very early start on Saturday.  I have to be at the hospital for 7:00am

Living with cancer uncertainties

This is part of a poem I read long ago - a fragment of Fragment.

I think about it sometimes, particularly when I read the blogs of others who are snared far deeper in the same net.

Only, always,
I could but see them---against the lamplight--pass
Like coloured shadows, thinner than filmy glass,
Slight bubbles, fainter than the wave's faint light,
That broke to phosphorous out in the night,
Perishing things and strange ghosts--soon to die
To other ghosts--this one, or that, or I.