Brailsford family updates

Well the news from last weeks hospital appointment is that as of today, in fact twenty minutes ago, I started back on the chemo. It's the same kind as before but s much stronger dose which comes with much stronger side effects. It will be a six month course. Taking it for five days and twenty five days off. It has to be timed carefully around food and the anti sickness tablets I have to take. So to be eating breakfast by half past seven I have to be awake and taking the first tablets by half past five. This will mean the ever patient, ever serving Mark is also awake at that point as he makes sure I've got all my tablets right. If we look even more wiped out/tireder than normal, it's because we are getting even less sleep than normal! Then it's at least half an hour until the next tablets with another half an hour until breakfast. And I get hungry in the morning. So have to watch myself that I don't start to get hangry! (Dad, that's when you're so hungry you

I had two letters from the hospital this week. The first one confused me a little as it told me that my next appointment was the date of the last appointment. I couldn't work out how I could have an appointment on a date that had already been. Then I read the rest of the letter and realised that it was a summary of the consultation we had on that date! Then later in the week another letter came from the hospital with a new date of a week on Friday, that made more sense. Hopefully our actual consultant will be well then as he was off with COVID for our last appointment. We've been looking at holidays for the year ahead. Which is nice to have something to look forward to. I think the planning part of holidays is one of my favourite parts, thinking about what we're going to do, take, etc. How far the beach is from where we are staying -is generally quite close as Zeb and I love a bit of holiday beach time, especially if it's a sandy beach. This holiday we're staying in