Day +11

I am getting quite frustrated at the moment.  I think it is a combination of wanting to go home, being cooped up in a hotel room, being bored and still feeling generally crappy.  I could go out if I wanted, but the more places I go and the more people I interact with the greater the chance I have of catching something which could jeopardise my chance of returning home.

But because I'm frustrated I'm also quite cranky and grouchy at the moment and a little incident last night really set me off.  It was about 10.00pm, my wife and I were just getting ready for bed and we started smelling cigarette smoke from the adjoining room next door.  Now the Seneca does have smoking floors but I am not staying on one of them.  Plain and simply I just got pissed off.

Now maybe I'm just being pedantic, but with a markedly suppressed immune system one is not just susceptible to catching colds etc, you are also more susceptible to the effects of toxins such that you would find in cigarette smoke.  I have a very low threshold right now so short of going next door and giving the bloke a huge spray about being selfish and antisocial I rang reception and made my complaint.

Just to clarify, I wasn't rude but I was assertive and I think I got what I wanted because we haven't smelt any smoke since.  Man, I am so ready to go home.  Only two days to go......  Stay well:)

Ps.  Thinking of you Bob and Wendy.  Stay strong, it will all be worth it in the end!

Day +6

When I was at uni at Newcastle I once caught the bus from the university to the city centre.  It was pretty much your standard bus trip with one exception.  A group of about six surfers who were on their way check out how filth the surf at the city beaches were had also boarded the bus.  And they sang a song.  It went:-

I know a song that'll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves.
I know a song that'll get on your nerves all day long.

Second verse same as the first.

I know a song that'll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves.

I know a song that'll get on your nerves all day long.  

....................................

I guess you get the idea.  But although I did not admire their musical talent, you had to admire their tenacity.  They kept it up for the whole trip.  All 36 minuets of it.  By the time I had arrived at my destination I was screaming for the ordeal to be over, and that is sort of how I feel now.  I am screaming to get out of here.  I just want to walk outside, sleep in a bed not made of plastic and just be surrounded by familiarity.

Well four days to go (hopefully) and then they should let me go provided my counts are ok.  Speaking of which my white cells are still TLTC, but my red cells and platelets although still dropping seem to be doing so slower.  Hopefully they will stabilise and start to return to normal before they have to give me a transfusion but apparently that is quite rare so they will do what they have to.

Well, that's it from me today.  Stay well:)