{"id":20137,"date":"2025-06-30T20:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20137"},"modified":"2025-07-01T05:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T05:29:41","slug":"monday-30th-june-2025-we-are-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20137","title":{"rendered":"Monday 30th June 2025 \u2013 WE ARE NOW …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… alone, STRAWBERRY MOOSE<\/a> and me. <\/p>\n

At lunchtime, The Hound of the Baskervilles dragged his master off into the sunset and the last that I heard, they were sitting in a hotel in Le Mans eating plastic pizza, ready to go for a blast down the Mulsanne Straight first thing tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n

It’ll take me a while now to adapt to the quiet in the apartment and my accustomed solitude.<\/p>\n

There was plenty of solitude in my bedroom last night, although I didn’t notice it. By the time that I’d finished my notes and gone through the usual routine, it was 22:30 when I finally crawled into bed, dead to the World, and I remember nothing whatsoever after that.<\/p>\n

It was about 06:15 when I awoke this morning, with no memory of anything that might (or might not) have occurred during the night. There was nothing on the dictaphone either, so I took advantage of the situation by reviewing the radio programme for the coming weekend and sending it off.<\/p>\n

Round about 07:00 everyone else began to stir so I went to join them in the living room after having had a good wash and shave in case I meet Emilie the Cute Consultant this afternoon.<\/p>\n

We sat around chatting and drinking coffee for a while until the nurse came to see me. It’s the last day of his round today – tomorrow Isabelle the Nurse begins her round so he reminded me to tell her about the injections that start tomorrow. I can tell that he was pleased that he doesn’t have to do them.<\/p>\n

The Hound of the Baskervilles dragged his master off for walkies and I stayed around to sort out a few things. When they returned, we had breakfast and then my friend packed away all of his gear into the car ready to leave.<\/p>\n

My cleaner turned up as usual to fit my patches but spent more time saying goodbye to the Hound of the Baskervilles than she did attending to me.<\/p>\n

After she left, we did a quick lap around the apartment to make sure that there was nothing left behind, and then we went downstairs to wait for the taxi.<\/p>\n

It was my favourite driver today, which was nice, so we said goodbye to everyone and the two of us set off for Avranches.<\/p>\n

Just for a change, we were early although it took quite a while to be coupled up. It was Alexi, the baby of the team, who dealt with me today. It’s been a while since I’ve seen her so we had a really good chat to catch up with events. <\/p>\n

She told me that she’d just come back from holiday – in Japan – and that her father had bought her an olive tree for the garden at her new house now that she’s finished arranging it.<\/p>\n

The bizarre news is that although it’s evident that I have some water retention, the amount of weight to be lost was “nil”. This lack of appetite seems to be having a good effect on my weight.<\/p>\n

Alexi set it to 350 grams all the same, but when the doctor came by, he set it to 1kg, so Alexi came back to set it to 1,200. If I can push ahead, I will.<\/p>\n

While he was here, I spoke to the doctor about the chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

He thinks that fifteen sessions is far too many, so I asked him what he thought about going to the University Hospital at Rennes for the chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

They could do the Retuximab at Avranches, but not the overnight chemotherapy. However he seems to know for a fact that they would do it all at Rennes.<\/p>\n

The way I see it, it’s four hours in a car to Paris, four hours back that’s killing me off, on top of the treatment itself which is vicious, and the climb up the stairs here which, I hope, will soon be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

The idea about going to Rennes is that it’s only 90 minutes away so it’s far less travelling time. Then, if I’m really feeling dreadful, I can stay for a Wednesday night to recover and then come back on Thursday. And as Avranches is in between Granville and Rennes, I could be thrown out at Avranches for my dialysis on the way past.<\/p>\n

That makes much more sense to me.<\/p>\n

That’s how the doctor sees it too, and he told me to chat to them at the hospital in Paris about it when I go back for the next session.<\/p>\n

Alexi unplugged me and compressed my implant, and when I weighed myself, I was the lowest weight that I have been for several years – only 700 grams above my “non-sporting” target weight and only 5.7 kilos above my athletic weight.<\/p>\n

Alexi accompanied me to the taxi to hand the driver my bag, and I was disappointed that I couldn’t persuade her to come home with me to pander to my every whim. "I’ve too much work to do"<\/em><\/strong> she said, which I suspected was something of a cop-out.<\/p>\n

The driver who brought me home was the one who spends all this time texting on his ‘phone as he drives. He’s going to come a nasty cropper one of these days, and I hope that it’s not when I’m in the car.<\/p>\n

My cleaner was waiting for me back here, and she helped me stagger up the stairs into my apartment, and I have never felt less like doing it than today. It took me a whole half-hour to come round afterwards.<\/p>\n

Although I wasn’t feeling hungry, I thought that I’d better eat something so I made a handful of pasta with veg and a vegan burger. And it was a struggle to force it all down, even though there wasn’t a lot of it.<\/p>\n

So right now, early as it may be, I’m off to bed to sleep the Sleep of the Dead. I need it tonight.<\/p>\n

But seeing as we have been talking about losing weight … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … a girl from Crewe went to the dietician to talk about losing weight.
\nThe dietician told her "it’s not really a problem. Just take three sesame biscuits with a cup of mint tea at mealtimes."<\/em><\/strong>
\nAnd so the girl goes off home but half an hour later she rings up the dietician
\n"These sesame biscuits and cup of mint tea"<\/em><\/strong> she said. "Do I take them before or after the meals?"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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