- Finding out about what will happen when the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) comes to an end next month. I know it will be bad news and I haven't got the heart to read it. (The CDF allowed patients in England to access some cancer drugs which were not otherwise available.)
- Starting an online course I registered for about immunotherapy. But it looks like it might require thought. Besides, the dog ate my homework.
- Looking at the scary form I've received questioning my right to receive Employment and Support Allowance (a state benefit) and asking lots of questions about my ability to work. I don't have the mental stamina necessary to complete the form let alone hold down a job.
- Completing the skirt I started making last year. But I'm at the stage where I have to do things with interfacing and attempt a button hole. Cue an attack of the vapours. The pattern says 'only one hours sewing time'. Ha ha bloody ha
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| The material is now even more 'vintage' than it was last summer when I bought it |
Anyway, here's what I've been doing instead of all the boring stuff above.
- Getting out and about in the winter sunshine
- Going on two, yes two, snowdrop walks. Never let it be said I don't know how to live on the edge. In case you're interested, or even if you aren't, one walk was the annual one in support of a local cancer charity, (many thanks to all the family members who turned out in support of this, once again you warmed my cockles) the other was at Rode Hall.
- Going to Cambridge for the weekend. It was very chilly and I walked my legs off
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| Trinity College (I think). My brain had frozen by this point. |
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| Punting? In that temperature? Silly sausages! |
- Stopping off at Ely Cathedral on the way home. Truly my middle name is Culture (or possibly Louise, you guess).
- Getting excited about finding a local shop (Whitchurch) bearing the family name
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| What can I tell you? I'm easily pleased |
- Gazing soppily at a happy Cyril (the three legged monster cat). Also taking him to the vet again after he got into yet another fight That's 53 quid on antibiotics thank you very much.
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| Bless his furry little chops |
- Purchasing (for reasons too complicated to explain) a Playmobil Elvis. I'm pleased to say he was well received.
Now before you start tutting and shaking your heads about my avoiding all the things I should be doing, the reason is not, as you might have thought, cowardice, laziness or excruciating hangovers. No, the truth is I have been traumatised and the shock has rendered me quite incapable of anything except the most frivolous activities. One of my sisters discovered (I know not how) that our old family home is now used for this. And to think I thought finding out I had incurable cancer was a shock. What did I know!
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