The Walk Beside

Measure Up

Posted on August 14th, 2007 by Cam.
Categories: Let's talk.

I have overdone it. A day at the studio workshop the other day has left me sore and lacking mobility. Libs and I got stuck into painting a bit more, putting together furniture a bit more, cleaning up a bit more. It is looking great and I have just sit back at times and in disbelief how happy I feel about all this. There is something just profound about seeing things come together so well around me that it overshadows the health situation. It is not an escape because these feelings are existing together. I feel the perfect mix of the lovely stuff and the unlovely stuff continually throughout the day. Today, the unlovely stuff is my right shoulder that refuses to give me strength. I can’t lift a phone to my ear or a cup to my mouth without the help of my left. They make a good pair really, but lefty thinks it is about time he took over doing the main stuff now. It is time to get my repeat of painkillers now anyway, so we will see how that goes.

Things have been very busy over the weekend and even now I feel like the week has just begun, but it is Wednesday tomorrow. What happened there?

Today I hung out at Radiology again. Nice place. Just me, the CT scanner, 3 Radiotherapists, a Consultant, a Resident and the Nurse. Quite a meeting actually. They took all the coordinates of the lesion to plan the therapy and gave me a tattoo on my chest. It is not the dragon I was hoping for but it will do for now.

Libs is now on holidays so we are going to be able to spend these next weeks just taking things easy before therapy starts on the 31st. What a life!

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