Much Better Today

Well, taking morphine  for a few days didn't do the trick, but today  I feel much better. Trivial level pain and a little bit of energy.  So it cant be the drugs! It must be my brilliant friends on the internet and their wonderful entertaining amusing, so nice, birthday wishes.

Thank you all!! xxx (even to the men)

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I perversely really look forward to my hospital visits. I find it all so interesting., caring informative people and lots of astounding technology, and I actually get to use it.  I'd really love to have a career in related research!

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I had the tumour in my spine zapped - killed - with radiation.   First I lay on the bed of a sophisticated x-ray machine that circled my body slowly under and over the bench, for just 5 minutes, and hummed gently and relaxingly. Another minute and I would have been sound aleep.  This was to ascertain the exact co-ordinates of the tumour (T2; in my back just at the bottom of my neck, not too close to the spinal cord), then a ten minute break while they did some mathematical calculations.  After that, another futuristic machine did something similar with a huge armature rotating slowly around me, burning out the tumour. 5 minutes and then time to go home. No sensation in my back. No side effects during or after. Even the next day and subsequently, no side effects. It is as if I'd never had it done. Brill!

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I'm using a morphine patch  plus for the time being a maximum strength cocodamol tablet. The pain eminating from my sternum  into my chest (UGH) has gone, revealing a lesser pain eminating from my 5th down right rib. This pain is a real bit of a ...pain!  It is not there all the time, but starts when I get out of bed, then takes 2 hours before it goes away.

.One way I like to monitor myself is by timing how fast I can climb the stairs. Yesterday I was about as fast as a good looking snail, maybe 2 seconds per step. Today I'm good like sn older person, maybe 2 steps per second.

I can get around again. And I'm just a shade pleasantly high with the drugs - and the birthday greetings. I feel so good.

I can't easily sit by the computer to type, so I got myself a cordless mouse and keyboard which I can use lying down. along with my 46" monitor - just to make you jealous ;-)

Tony Jeffs x