Beating Bowel Cancer

Day 15-Friday

Had my first cancer dream last night! Woke up doing that weird sleep crying thing! Dreamt that I started being sick a weeks worth of thyroxine and painkillers- they were coming up whole! Went to the doctors and they told me I obviously had throat cancer and the medicine hadn’t been able to get down. The prognosis was poor and they told me to go home to die! Horrible, horrible, horrible. Must be the upcoming CT scan that is on my mind. By Monday I will know definitely if there has been any spread in my chest or abdomen.

Got on with finding a charity to support this morning. Decide on Beating Bowel Cancer- http://www.beatingbowelcancer.org/. This charity is based close to where I'm from in the UK. It offers a great support for sufferers and their families as well as increasing awareness. They are holding a collection on 4th Dec at the Bentalls shopping centre, Kingston. Being a shopaholic this used to be my favourite place! They require volunteers to help with the collection if any of you are free! If not, please pop along and just leave a donation. Sunday 4th Dec is a very important day for me- the start of chemo, and it would spur me on no end if I knew my friends and family where supporting my journey back in the UK. Take a picture of yourself there and it will appear on the blog! That will entice some of you!

Already have some fundraising set up. An old flat mate and uni friend 'H', who now lives in Australia, is going to do an Aquathon in January for colon cancer. The crazy girl is going to swim 950m and run 7km! Cannot express how much this means to me and let's hope together we can increase awareness and save someone's life. Also Matt is going to do the Dubai 10km in January. He wanted to do the full marathon, but in true physio spirit I advised against this without the appropriate training! Don't need to be worrying about him getting an injury in the next 2months!

For my Dubai friends and colleagues if you feel you would like to run the 10km or 3km please bear my charity in mind. You can order 'beating bowel cancer' t-shirts off their website and I am planning to get some iron on transfers made to add onto the back of these. The slogan –

Does my colon look big in this? (picture of a mushroom! wouldn't let me paste)

Matt would also like to be dressed as a mushroom, or the very least have a mushroom hat on! Mum is going to buy a sewing machine and get creative. So let me know if you would like to be a fellow 'mushrette' and mum can sort you out!

We went to our first ever Thanksgiving celebrations today. Dolled myself up and painted nails bight turquoise! Keep getting a shock every time I see my hands but I'm sure I will get used to this new hobby! Food was lovely and it was great to catch up with Matt's colleagues. The biscuit debate continues- the American's have very different ideas about biscuits. The y call cheese puffs/scones biscuits where we always think of HobNobs or digestives! I feel this will never be resolved!

Dad has left today. Feel sad that he has gone and that isn't a sentence I expected to be saying anytime soon. I need to let bygones be bygones and start afresh.

Cast selection today- my sister would also like to play herself. My sister is the actress of the family. Very dramatic and she often won 'Oscars' for tantrum s as a teenager! In fact she won the Shakespeare cup 3 times in a row. "Lysander, Lysander, pluck this serpent from my chest" was a line I heard often from my little sister! My sister is the only one in the family with the acting gene. I was told by my speech and drama teacher that I should only do mime as my voice

was too common and my brother's staring role was a tree!

Back in the marital bed tonight!