02/09/22 Vacation

I've been writing this blog for very nearly three years now and with a very few exceptions I've stuck to my intention of posting at least every couple of days. But I've been in remission for over two years now and it gets harder and harder to find things to write about that are even vaguely myeloma-related. I could do a piece about my recent (minor) problem with dental appointments, but why?

I don't know why, so I've decided to take a break from blogging. I'll be back when something important happens about my myeloma, or maybe just when the blogging urge becomes refreshed. Until then, and before the last of this extraordinary summer fades away, I'm off on holiday. See you when I get back...

31/08/22 Results from blood tests #41

Good news! Paraproteins still undetectable, free light chains all ok, and that gamma glutamyl transferase is firmly back in the normal range where it belongs. Potassium a little bit low again so back on the bananas.. Nothing else to cause concern as far as I can tell - mot important of all is that remission continues!.

30/08/22 Bloods and boules

It's a week since the last bloods were taken at Springfield, so as usual I've sent an email to the cancer nurses to remind them to send me the results. That should give me something myeloma-related to write about next time. The rest of this post is probably of interest to other petanque players only (I know there are at least two among the readership, curiously located at opposite points on the earth's surface.)

Played a very enjoyable doubles game at Epping yesterday morning. The opposition got off to a good stat with five points from the first end. Difficult to come back from that, and they built up a 10 - 2 lead before we started a recovery and squared it at 12 - 12. The final end came down to my last ball and the opposition's last ball. I made a good throw, pointing right up next to the coche and taking the lead. The opposition had no choice but to shoot, and he hit my "on" ball perfectly. It flew off five or six feet to the right, and that could so easily have given them the point. But instead the coche just followed my ball, stopping six inches away and giving us 13 - 12. Two good balls to finish a very tight match, and it could have gone either way. Just luck that my team came out on top.

28/08/22 Hare

 Breakfast at The Hare yesterday (Full English) followed by a walk in Tower Gardens:

Ate nothing else all day apart from half a can of soup (with some grated cheese added) and a leftover crust off the last loaf.

26/08/22 Thunderstorm

Last night brought the long-awaited thunderstorm, and a LOT of rain. 

Result: a leak in what we rather grandly call the boiler room. Actually, rather more of an alcove. Looks to have been just the sheer quantity of rain getting into the flue rather than a leak in the flat roof where the flue goes through.

24/08/22 (2) Harlow

Very hot again, very humid and sticky. Went to Harlow Town Park for a walk/scoot. The strange thing about this park is that every tine we go, the cafe is somewhere different. Or the route we carefully memorised last time no longer works. Yet again we went wrong, so we ended up in the pub (The Greyhound) for lunch instead. Excellent scampi & chips with garden peas - it seems to be making a bit of a comeback - and very strange cappuccinos. Stopped for Rossi ice-creams on the way home - more than welcome in the heat.

24/08/22 No news...

 It's a very quiet time for bloggable material. Nothing new again...