BLOG 300 - and so to bed

So this week we got back into our own bed - it has been a long time in coming and we were both ready for it. This is blog number 300 and in that time we have used 127 different beds but just think - every couple of posts and a different bed if you include the repeat visits. It is too much. Goodnight.

A CAVA-eat

Here we are in another house, we have been here a month and are about to leave again. We had a little celebration last night with our hosts Janet and James. Just announcing a caveat.  the subject of which we  cannot yet tell you what we were so happy about but hopefully soon. This chemo malarky is not really much fun but certain other chemicals along the way do gladden the heart!

Please Sir...

This post is not really about us, but the fact that our youngest has qualified and started work as a teacher is really a significant step forward. Donald is the guy at the top of the stairs (as is often the way for male teachers we hear!) We are so happy that he loves his job and that he gets to stay with us for a few months.

Pre-chemo cumpleaños

The countdown to chemo started but we were delighted that we got another wee party in before we had to fly to Aberdeen. It was a joy to welcome 30 people into our summer let and to hear the mixed conversations in the 4 wee rooms (intellectuals, politicians, teachers and those of us in the kitchen!!) Good times, party food and a clootie duff! Next stop ARI

Messy Church

So on Monday after the prayer meeting a neighbour from the flat upstairs brought down her scissors and while she tidied up the team's stray locks the floor grew hairier. Messy Church but great to build relationships with the locals.

Plane to Spain (again!)

We have tickets to go to Spain next week and clear the flat for the following 7 months. Les will probably stay a bit longer than me but we hope to be together before chemo starts or my birthday on 8th July - whichever comes first.
Friends have offered us the use of a holiday cottage over the winter which is amazing and we are so grateful. We also have a different house for July so the bed total is soon going to be 111 different ones, even though I missed the conference room I had booked and Les's birthday night in a hotel.
Meanwhile we have had a little holiday in Orkney, being well fed and watered by Mum... this explains why the standing stone is leaning to the side!

Like it or lump it.

We have been a bit quiet on here about health matters as you heard enough last year on the operational front to last for quite some time.. but again surgery is required and so to make a complete record of this journey we report the bad as well as the good. Fiona found a lump which was cancerous and this week we went to Aberdeen and had it removed. Excellent surgeon and team in a nice clean hospital, such a different experience to last year, and home the day afterwards. Those who saw this photo on facebook asked what the scribbles say. Apparently it is now the procedure to mark the skin 3 times and have it checked to avoid any errors. So Wide Local Excision (the lump plus a bit of healthy tissue) and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy where they remove the nearest lymph nodes to check if any cancer cells have spread. We won´t know until another 3 weeks when they get the pathology reports back what the next steps are. I will have to have radiotherapy treatment for sure but if there has been any spread I might have to have chemo first. Now you know as much as me but I won´t be back in Spain for at least 2 months.