Friday, 15 November 2024

Overdue?

I’m a lonely boy. Oh O-o-oh. I got a love that keeps me waiting
Lonely Boy - Black Keys

Maybe this post is long overdue. Maybe it’s completely superfluous.

I haven’t written for ages, not because the last 6 months haven’t been uneventful (sorry - a lot of negatives there), but because from a myeloma perspective (the extent of our remit here on dialm) the events haven’t been sufficiently remarkable as to write about.

The rest of my life, btw, is great, thanks for asking, but I’m not going to write about it here.

The myeloma events have been varied, typically: chemo side effects; myeloma symptoms (plasmacytomas, bone lesions,, low blood counts); fatigue; infections and endless mysterious pains. I find these days I’m usually engaged in a few of these events at any one time.

Still, none of them individually worth writing up here. You’ve read it before. I wrote it before.

I plod through the chemo hoping they keep inventing them as fast as I use them. We’ll see. We did indeed end off changing chemo after my last post. And we’re about to do so again.

This post, I’m sure, reads very bleak. But my life is a long way from that. I’m feeling quite well at the moment and just back from a string of holidays. We’ve kind of given ourselves the permission to travel whenever we can, and right now we can. Many of you won’t be surprised to know I have a list of outlandish suggestions. I’m blessed with a wonderful family and lots of friends, living in one of (imo) the nicest corners of London with sufficient funds to live a good life without needing to work. But… we’re drifting off topic so that means it’s time to stop writing.

Here’s a pic I took last night of Faithless performing in Brixton. By contrast, I will spend tonight in hospital. Quite a good demonstration of the contrasting nature of different days of my  life!

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