Oh deary me!

You remember my last blog mentioned about draining the abccess well.................. I got a phone call at work last Monday at about 10.30am from the Marsden asking if I could make my way to St Helier as they could do the drainage procedure today. It's apparently going to be done under local anaesthetic and takes about ½ hour; so I duely arrived and reported to casualty as instructed. After 1½ hours waiting, I was then called in to see the triage nurse to whom I explained againthat I had a bed waiting for me etc etc. They called up to the day unit who said that was fine so up I went to the 3rd floor. When I got there the sister said she was sorry but they hadn't actually got a bed for me so would I mind waiting in the day room. Whilst inthere they took my bloods and then a 3rd year doctor came and asked me so many questions almost down to how many veruccas I had had as a child! Eventually they found me a bed and I got into the top fashion gown that hospitals provide and sat and waited. (You may see a pattern of waiting emerging here) To cut a long story of waiting short, they told me at about 3.45 that the doctor who would be doing the procedure didn't know I was coming and had no space to see me until Monday of next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To say I was a bit disgruntled would be putting it mildly, but at the end of the day, if they couldn't do it, there was nothing I could do about it, so I came home. The Marsden were spitting feathers when I told them and I seemed to be piggy in the middle. I think the worst bit was when I told the registrar that it meant putting my chem back again, she said the 'in the great scheme of things a delay in chemo wouldn't really matter' I pointed out that it wasn't her that had cancer and a delay meant a great deal to me ( the evil twins {my tumours} have to die!). Anyway, the upshot of all of this is that I am booked in to go back to St Helier on Monday to have the drainage done but this time I have to go at 8.30am and have to have nil by mouth since midnight and I will be in overnight! I really wonder if they know what they are doing, I cetainly had not expected to be kept in overnight but knowing St Helier, I'll probably be home tby lunchtime!

My chemo has now be changed to next Wednesday so hopefully things will then be back on track ~ it's all been quite unsettling and I really don't need the stress of it all.

I collected my wig yesterday and took it to my hairdresser who thought it was fab and will cut it to suit me slightly better. The back is fine but it's a bit puffy on top for my liking, but Robert said it will be no problem to chip chop it so I feel a bit better about it now. He cut my hair and made it look so good yesterday even if I don't have it for maybe much longer, I still need it to look nice and I think he did the best cut ever. I felt so good I had to go and do some retail therapy in M&S in their sale!

Am now just off to work so will post again next week sometime. xxxxx