Glad to say I'm in rather a better mood than I was last night, which was perhaps a bit obvious...
I took a furosemide (diuretic) before breakfast yesterday and was still urinating every twenty minutes or so till well after 16:00. That required careful timing of a quick trip to the M&S Food Hall in the Clock Tower retail park this side of Chelmsford to get myself an Indian for the evening - Sue didn't need an evening meal after having been out for lunch with friends. The Gents in M&S was an essential part of the plan.
On a related topic, the bowels are now in excellent working order again without having to resort to Fybogel or Laxido. And having had a few days of normality I have to start planning again for Sunday and Monday morning...
Boules at Birchanger yesterday evening. It was obviously going to be cold and windy but even so I under-prepared for the thoroughly unpleasant weather and left after playing (and losing) just one game, partly because of fear of setting off another round of finger splits.
Later this morning (between 10:00 and 12:00) I'm expecting a 'phone call from my GP Dr.KU about the request for sleep apnea testing. And about time too!
All I can say is that my ring tells me I have several sleep interruptions a night that I'm completely unaware of, my continuous oxygen saturation monitor reveals 20 or so "dips" a night with SpO2 dropping to 86% or so, and my snoring monitor app shows snoring over 30% of the time - some of it "epic"! None of that is conclusive but it all points strongly in the same direction, so I'm hoping he will be co-operative and that referral to a sleep specialist unit will not take too long. Although it probably will.
Finished Week 3 of consolidation cycle 16 last night, so next week is off lenalidomide and we start the run-up to the next set of bloods and the usual nervous wait for the results.
The right calf rash has now 99% faded away but instead I've got a lot of little red spots / lesions / abrasions / whatever you call them on the inside of my left wrist - curiously, just either side of where my watch strap goes. I'm plastering the antiseptic cream on and crossing my fingers.
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