Bad Hair Day

Monday 28th January

Tim's lying on the sofa next to me as I write this but hasn't got the energy to compose this himself. Another difficult day for him as he has been very low, feeling sick on and off and generally feeling rubbish all round. I made him go out for a walk earlier just to get some fresh air and have a change of scene. He made it three quarters of the way into town before he turned back, which was an achievement considering how he was feeling. The appetite is still way down, Weetabix are going to do well out of us as that's still all that he is really enjoying eating and which goes down without a struggle. He did manage a little soup at lunch time and a little bit of ice cream tonight before he resorted back to the breakfast cereal we all know and like. Tim said earlier what a difference a week makes, as last Monday we went out for lunch and he ate a huge plateful of fish and chips. Nevermind hopefully by next week he will feel more able to eat like that again.
The other thing he is having to cope with is that a couple of veins in his leg have become red and painful. Mindful of the dangers of blood clots which the Chemo can cause we took a trip down to the surgery to get them checked out. They seemed quite happy that they weren't anything too serious and prescribed Codeine and some ointment to massage in. He has also started wearing his compression socks, the closest he will come to running gear for a while I fear.

Hair update....there isn't any! He washed it this morning and apart from a downy coating which he will shave off, it has all gone now. He left it in the bath for me to see and I have to say  considering how he has been shedding over the last couple of weeks there was still a remarkable amount in there. I left it there for Ben to see and even tried to sculpt it into a rat shape with a tail to try and freak him when he came home from school. Obviously sculpture is not my medium though as he had to ask me what it was. Tim does look better now though without the tuffty bits and I did say at least he has a nice shape head which doesn't look out of proportion or alien like in any way. Don't know if that made him feel better or not!

Hopefully Tim will be back at the keyboard again tomorrow.

Mandy