He did the marathon in 4 hours!

Dear all, I had written a nice long witty and amusing blog which I hadn't quite posted and lost the internet connection, ad guess what...I lost the post!!

So here's what I can remember,

Today was the day and he did it through the rain, and apparently at Tower Bridge, snow!! He hit the wall like you wouldn't believe it, (for those of you who don't know what that it, it's when you get to about 18 miles and your vision goes and your legs stop working etc etc etc), his left knee stopped working, he was over taken my crazy grannies (you have NO idea how many of them there are!!!) and he finished. I don't think I have ever been prouder. He put him self through I can't remember how many months of training and 4 hours of hell for me!! What else could you ask for??

Oh and he also thinks he's lost all of his toe nails!! Daddy nearly vomited when I said that, HA HA HA!!! How I love the amusement I get from the squeemish!!

For those of you who have not yet donated, and mean to, please, please, please do it!! The clock is now ticking on the amount of time left to donate and every single penny makes such a difference!! And makes my blubbing as I walked through Piccadilly so much more meaningful!!

A great big thank you to all who have been so supportive and wonderful and amazing and (shut up Katherine or you will start to blub, and I don't think those on the train would be able to deal with it!...How I love those that GNER, or rather East Coat something as they are now called, and the free wireless so I can do this to fill my time on the way back to Edinburgh!)

He's amazing, I love him so much, he's a little (can you call someone over 6ft little???) superstar!!

Lots of love, smiles, laughter, and let's face it a little teary looking,
Me XXX

Results in a couple of weeks

Well I'm afraid I can't give you the results from the bone marrow test from last week as they won't be ready for another couple of weeks due to the lab having new equipment being installed etc etc etc I shall blog it straight away when I know!

Check up today was fine, platelets have gone up which is good! They are at 108, fingers crossed they continue to behave. White count was 3.5 which I think was a bit lower than before, but not low enough to cause any concern. My bcg (don't know what it stands for medically, in laymans terms it is the leukaemic level in my system) for March was 4.5% which is brilliant as it is a couple of percent lower than last time, woop woop!

Dr. Shepherd has continued with keeping me on 70mg a day for the time being. My next check up is in a month, which is also really good as it means she is happier with my progress and that my track mark junkie scar won't carry on developing.

Have also fininshed all my essays for ever. Is rather odd having no more work to do, and a huge relief at the same time. I do miss the library a little bit though...I'm sure I'll get over that very quickly!!

Marathon on Sunday, very excited about watching the little bro run his run and be there waiting at the end for him. Am uber proud of him, and my clic sargent is over the moon about the money we have raised so far. As amI!

Well I think thats about it, shall write again after the marathon so everyone can know what time Milo ran in.

Hope all is well with everyone,

lots of love, laughter and smiles,
XXX

One week to go until the marathon

Dear all,

Hope all is well with everyone.

Ok, it's one week today that Milo will be running (fingers crossed not in the snow that has arrived in Edinburgh this morning) 26 miles of agony and pain for me! (and Clic Sargent)

So, can those of you who have not yet dug deep, please, please, please go to the website and give!

A great big thank you to those of you who have been so kind and generous so far!

Lots of love, laughter and smiles,

XXX

Bone Marrow Test

Dear All,

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter. I did, and was a very happy bunny to wake up (lets be honest, was woken up at around midday) and see everywhere covered with snow!!! For those of you who don't know, I LOVE the snow soooooooo much! And it was really thick and settled EVERYWHERE!!! Unfortunately it melted by the end of the day...why is snow ALWAYS followed by the sun???? But not before I had a fun time with my camera!

Ok, bone marrow test. Not as painful as I thought. Having the anasthetic was by far and away the most painful bit. (stang like fuck!) But after that was blissully unaware of anything. This is a good thing, cause the doctor tested to see if the anasthetic had kicked in by jabbing a sharp needle into me!! I thank god it had kicked in by then!

I get the results in a week to 10 days, so might get them when I have my chek up next Thurs. By then I will have finnished all my uni work for ever, WOOP!!! All my friends are highly jealous that I'm not sitting exams, but me thinks they would rather that they had their finals rather than swap the last year with me. They are just a little bit stressed at the moment and see that I am nearly fancy free and footloose, and on that note, I'm jetting off to the U S of A on the 22nd for 6 days and I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!

Well I think that's everything for the mo. I had written more, but stupidly managed to delete it. This autosaves, but I have nooooooooooo idea how to get to it, and have what I wrote before....nevermind!!

Oh I know what I wrote, the reason they do the bone marrow test is to see if the chemo is working at a more molecular level, and encouraging the body to go into remission rather than the chemo just killing off cells. If it's the latter, I think they start to think abut a bone marrow transplant, but I'm sure I won't be needing one of those!

Me thinks that's it til next thursday when I have my check up.

Hope all is well with everyone!

Lots of love, laughter and smiles,
XXX