Another member is having a transplant somewhere else. He very properly sucked ice cubes throughout the Melphalan infusion - the idea being to reduce blood flow to the mouth and tongue as well as reducing the metabolic rate of the active tissues there so as to minimise the melphalan uptake and avoid mucositis and mouth ulcers. He was a little surprised to be brought a hot coffee just half an hour later. I (and some others) suggested letting it cool to room temperature and then asking for some ice cubes to cool it even further before drinking.
A very hot day yesterday so we went to the Flitch Way (between Braintree and Dunmow), which used to be a railway line before Dr.Beeching finished it off. It's very straight and very level (apart from one spot where there a couple of steepish ramps to avoid a bridge under repair, and another with a gentler but longer slope where it goes over an A road that probably wasn't there in Beeching's time. But best of all, it has a lot of shade:
We finished with tea and cake at the Rayne station - all well-organised against the virus and with socially distanced tables:
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