{"id":6126,"date":"2016-05-26T18:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2016-05-26T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:26:43","slug":"thursday-26th-may-2016-its-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 26th May 2016 &#8211; IT&#8217;S HARD &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to think of what I&#8217;ve done today.<\/p>\n<p>I know that my night last night was nothing like as good as last night. I didn&#8217;t drop off to sleep so early and I was awake by 04:00, much to my dismay. In fact, round about 15:00, I dropped off to sleep and was awoken at 17:00 by a nurse gently shaking my leg to tell me that my tea had arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that I do remember about the night was that a girl who has been described in these pages as &#8220;the one that got away&#8221; came to visit me at some point.<\/p>\n<p>So what have I done today then? <\/p>\n<p>The answer is, basically, nothing. The doctor came to see me again and she examined me. She says that they will make a decision today about my chemotherapy (although, if they have done, I don&#8217;t know what it is) and she offered me an endoscopy to look into my stomach &#8211; something that I turned down flat as you might expect.<\/p>\n<p>The dietician came along too. He told me that he&#8217;s going to prescribe a certain high-carbohydrate drink for me that has 300 calories per serving, and he would be back shortly after 14:00 with the first instalment. He didn&#8217;t put in an appearance either so I don&#8217;t know much more about that.<\/p>\n<p>And really, nothing much more. <\/p>\n<p>I have to take my stomach pills twice a day now, so I have been informed, because I still have the nausea, but the problem at the other end seems to have subsided, at least for the moment. Mind you, as we all know with chemotherapy, it won&#8217;t be long before it&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s your lot. I hope that tomorrow will be more exciting.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-6126 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='6126' data-nonce='6b9557f122' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-6126 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-6126 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6126' data-nonce='6b9557f122' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-6126 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-6126 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to think of what I&#8217;ve done today. I know that my night last night was nothing like as good as last night. I didn&#8217;t drop off to sleep so early and I was awake by 04:00, much to my dismay. In fact, round about 15:00, I dropped off to sleep and was awoken at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,44,4507,3173,3371],"tags":[1673,6481,1302,6542,212,6988,2560,5911,5918,3293],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-hospital","category-leuven","tag-belgium-2","tag-chemotherapy","tag-crash-out","tag-diarrhoea","tag-dream","tag-endoscopy","tag-eric-hall","tag-hospital","tag-leuven","tag-mandy_m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}