Sandy’s Treatment – Day 188

It’s another week – up, breakfast, get lunch, have lunch appropriated, dogs walked.

Sandy’s improving – we’re a couple of weeks after chemo – the pattern is repeating.

Drive to work, coffee, prep for the exam board, more admin, a bit of marking and up to meet the externals.

The board was straightforward, fortunately. It was then off to Sainsbury’s for shopping, then home, supper, dogs, feed me and then back to wordsmithery on the laptop.

Sitting out in the garden with an occasional dog nose under my wrist, its’s completely calm and cloudy, but warm and humid. Forecast rain, heavy, month’s worth a a time, is forecast for the early hours and tomorrow morning.

Sandy’s cadio scan appointment had been brought forward so that the oncologist will get it before next week’s appointment. Which is good, and this chemo can affect her heart function. The scan’s now Thursday.

Apart from her improvement, not a lot else to report today. She’s done some difficult laying out of fabric which she wants me to check tomorrow. I am learning about sewing, such as ‘right sides together’ which, if she gets it correct, means that a lot of swearing doesn’t happen.

Maybe something like that should have happened in 1747 when the inscriber of the inscription should have better planned his work. Or maybe he just couldn’t spell.  The inscription means “They perish and are reckoned,” meaning that the hours and days perish and are reckoned to our accounts. St Buryan, Cornwall.

Tomorrow – working from home.

I’m still sitting in the garden with the dog on the prowl, or occasionally sitting at or on my feet.

Music: Arvo Pärt – Stabat Mater for Choir and String Orchestra. Going a bit more modern.

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