Wheels

CANCER BLOG / FRIDAY 23rd AUGUST / OSLO HOSPITAL

Opening weight – 83-.3 Kg

Fresh cool autumn morning; the right leg, slow to wake but I made
It ouside the hospital by wheelchair; I did not try and walk.

‘Wolf’, the night nurse, suggested earlier I try walking the wheelchair to the outside of the hospital, to see just how far I could reach on foot, then, if it was too much pain or discomfort, then I could get in the chair and complete my journey on four wheels. It was a clever suggestion.
I reached the front exit of the hospital exit doors, then I had to give up, because the pain in the right knee, was just too much to cope with.
By the time I got back to the ward, he had looked at the private wheelchair market with what was available for me to see what could be purchased in addition to the push around wheelchair that I will be supplied with from the governmnet/state. That was very good of him.
Of course, the price gets a lot higher with an electric motor in it.
So I am very lucky, to have a singing voice to rely on and to be able to carry on singing and earning money, which will pay for that. We all need money to pay for our essential items !!!
Now I wait for my morning nurse and my 0900 morning medicines before the radio therapy at 0930, this morning.
Speak soon.

I’m having another social meeting with Lars and family from the TNT crew tonight, which I am very happy about; I’m through another meeting with the hospital team at Oslo, reassuring me that I am really in ownership of a few more months of life and not a few years, and all of the relative signs I should be expecting during this eventual time.
I am glad that the team are made up of real people and not just blank faces, it makes a real difference to me. My own mother passed away from this disease and she was ten years younger than I am when it took her, so I have been very lucky to have an extra ten years. It being the weekend now, there is no real activity in the hospital going on at all now. I was awake at 06.10 and unable to stand on my right leg, due to the pain in my right knee again. So, we have maintained the medications and will continue to do so for another 36 hours until I see the Doctor again on their Monday morning round.

Tony