Sometimes the days run away with me, I'm not sure why but that is my excuse for 3 days of silence. Just to explain, the day starts at 7am with Elaine's first meds then I go back to bed for a bit. It is an elastic bit, but I then go for a walk followed by breakfast and chores. While Elaine was in hospital I visited about midday but normally I wake her about then. She usually has an afternoon lie down I relax a bit until time to start dinner. After dinner tidy up etc then bed. So I should be able to fit the blog into that routine and I will endeavour to keep it current in future. Hopefully that will work better than political promises.

Back to the lady in question. By the time I got back to Hollyeood on Wednesday Elaine was festooned with drips. There was a blood transfusion plus antibiotic and she was still a bit, read a lot, woosy. After the drips finished she was sent off for X-rays but they couldn't complete then as she was not feeling well. Thursday however was a different story, there was still the antibiotic drip and they were able to complete the X-rays. There was also a visit from Dr Troon, our oncologist, who explained what was happening and noted that the chemo appeared to have made some gains. We also learned that the fever was a result of severely lowered immune system due to a lack of neutrophils. These neutro watsies are the bloods infection fighters and the chemo had attacked them which is one of the expected side effects. Anyway Hollywood did a good job of looking after Elaine and along with the  cheering up from visitors she was ready to come home on Friday.  Which is how it unfolded, after an ultra sound on her bad shoulder that didn't find anything of note and after we were given some more antibiotics to be consumed at home.

Yesterday was a good day, the shoulder pain even stayed dormant until the night. I prepared next weeks meds and we had the pleasure of a couple of visitors.