Well that was interesting........

 As the title says it was interesting but not always in a good way!! Since early January I have been, as I said in the previous post, undergoing treatment for neck cancer. Good news is that the treatment i over and they all seem happy with the results but I will find out in a couple of weeks when I see my oncologist.

The radiotherapy went well enough and I had no real problems with it other than a plethora of side effects which are not overly pleasant!  The chemotherapy on the other hand was pretty brutal, the first blast anyway. result in my kidneys dropping to under 75% and me going into hospital for a week while they sorted me out!! I must admit I never felt so ill in my life, really bad but the hospital did a grand job on getting me back on my feet.

Side effects have been a bit brutal, doctor told me all about them before I started and I think I got every one of them!! Worst is no taste, really grim, everything tastes like mud, really disgusting and has resulted in me being on a feeding tube for all my water and nutrients, bit of a pain but it is ok. Taste is beginning to come back but very slowly, my sense of smell is fine which means I can smell everything my good lady is cooking for her dinner, pure torture, smell great but taste....... Hopefully this will end soon and I can get back to eating normally, fingers crossed. One of the other side effects is that my facial hair has died! Not too sure if it will ever come back, bar for the odd bit no shaving required!

Well as you can imagine hobby time has been zero and it is only now I am back to looking at blogs and plotting and planning, mojo is good but chance of getting thing done is low at the moment, so reading blogs and planning will have to suffice for the moment.

Anyway another week of recovery then I have a week of clinics before I see the doctor for her views on how it all went. Well I am back to a certain extent and looking forward to getting back to normality, big year for me this year as I am looking to retire at the end of it, so plenty of plans for my hobby time in this year and hopefully the future,

Next post will be more hobby centred I promise!!!