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its started - restoration of the house... starting upstairs, with the bedrooms, today.
We've emptied entirely the main bedroom, and the smallest bedroom, (we're occupying the middle one ATM), and today the decorator/handyman has started.... lots and lots of banging and 'ripping' and ... noise
I think, today is prep stuff, he's removing skirting boards, a few of the doors, an old ancient gas heater thing I never even knew was there and then will get on to fill in cracks in ceilings and walls etc, Oh, and removing some fo the old BT sockets we dont' need/use and hammering down floorboard nails, so they can be resanded at some point soon
its so noisey!
off to hospital this afternoon for a three monthly checkup in oncology

That reminds me, I need to remove my gas wall heater now that I have my ductless system.

This was some really anchient old gas heater thing! - pos from late 60s early 70s! -I didn't even realise it was still there; when we had the gas safety check and boiler service last month, we got the engineer to cap it off and disconnect, but only now tetting it of the wall

We now have; sound of floorboards being re-sanded!! already ,wow> if this all goes super-quick, we may even get the bahtroom done before the wedding too its a race against time really...

oops, I was wrong it was the sound of the walls being sanded

So far today he removed the old skirting boards, some old doors, sanded and suchlike on the walls, and did some hammering down flat some nails on teh floor, tomorrow I think he's filling on teh walls, then more sanding,


We had to leave him to finish off today, as I had the hospital appointment - the house and its contents were still here when we returned, which is nice
Went to hospital.... nurse took bloods, and found a blood letting vessel in my arm first time
got weighed ,grr> not lost anything - which makes them happy but doesn't me

Saw doctor, who said bloods were fine (which they were),
He also had result of the brain CT from a while back; no evidence of brain lymphoma, which is nice (I nagged them on this question for a year until finally getting an answer today)
told them the never-relenting list of side effects I still have= no treatment for any so nothing they coudl say really...
Had a full physical examintion to check for swollen.... lymph nodes - even got a laugh more a chuckle from the Dr as I apologized for the layers he had to fight through, to get through my skirt, leggings, adn knickers, to check gonal lymph nodes
All fine, next appointment in 4 months...

*sound of killer 2legs comment into Dr* - posed question of GF replacement to oncologist... ensue confused look; exaplain pathophysiologiy of panhypopituitarism....

Get Dr to go speak to head big honcho lord of all he percieves, head lymphoma bloke...

ma
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head honcho bloke agrees I can have GF replacement without risk/too much risk; they're gona write a letter to my endo prof

- I really shouldn't be so 'hapy' about the prospect of starting lifelong injections daily, of growth factor, but, from my reading it oughta help make me feel a lot better, or at least feel like I'm alive and not just a vague sense of sort of wobbly vague floaty nothingness of sensation - of course will ahve to see what endo prof thinks...


so next oncology appointment end of August I tink

so exausted today, felt faint most of the day again.

and... we're off again.... sanding.... admixed with the sound of a hoover....

Must phone window company today, window bust again, opening mechanism not working - in the room being sanded, which... is not very bluddy helpful
have a couple wedding invitations I must send off today, and then a random deranged friend is in town later, and says he's coming round; possibly to stay overnight (in which case he can have the sofa...) just recovering from morning medications, still feeling a bit sick and brain totally vacant still Must try get upstairs past the work going on, and into the bedroom to find some clothes so we can head into town, need to visit bank, do a bit of shopping, but mainly need to escape the sound of the sander more prep/resoration on walls today I think making them good for painting err... some other stuff I'm ment to do today I think, bu t can't recall it at the moment until the head starts working sufficiently again a walk out might hlep ease the muscle and joint pain too so must try stir into action soon