Another dismal couple of days, preventing a decent walk or lawnmowing or boules practice on the grass. Nevertheless, met my activity targets again, helped by a trip to the GP surgery pharmacy to pick up a prescription, and several ineffective attempts to return something to Amazon. Nobody will accept a simple barcode anymore, they all want a QR instead, but Amazon won't give me one...
Nothing else to report worth talking about. A couple of delayed effects of Sunday's fall - some pain and soreness at the base of my right thumb, kept under control by applications of Deep Heat, and slight bruising across the bridge of my nose. I didn't think about it at the time, but I suppose that with the bone-weakening powers of myeloma and dexamethasone combined I was perhaps lucky to get away without breaking something. Maybe going back on the bone-strengthening Zometa was the right thing to do!
Later today and if everything goes to plan I hope to set up VoIP internet telephony as well as doing some shoe repairs with specialist shoe glue provided by Amazon, and a repair to their Venetian blind in the shower room with superglue. Not confident about that last one - it may need a new blind altogether. Won't be the first time... As I've said before, normal everyday life goes on, myeloma or not. And a good thing too - it's an anchor to sanity after reading some of the stories about late-stage myeloma that have been on the Facebook group recently. Not very pleasant. Not at all.
I want to stay engaged in "normal everyday life" for as long as I possibly can. Apart from keeping on taking the pills etc. that's the best way of keeping the beast at bay that I've heard of. Looks as if that may mean more boules and less live music than before, but everything changes...
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