17 days! So glad not to be having chemo today. It is 3 weeks since my last session and I would have been due it again today. So from today onwards I am on new ground, post chemo. I am feeling better but I am impatient to be well again and it is too slow.

Dialysis was ok yesterday. Lovely to catch up with D and hear all about her holiday. She had some lovely stories to tell of beautiful Greece. I so nearly managed to get my top needle in but just not quite. It is lovely to feel like I am in control - well nearly! Once I have done that I will then need to work out how I and the machine manage to combine! That will be the most tricky part. I am hoping to visit the one other patient in the hospital who does everything himself and see how he manages it with one hand, whilst being in bed. Think it is a bit like rubing your head and your tummy at the same time - whilst standing on your head!!!!!

I am to be famous. I had my photograph taken for an annual review document at the hospital. They wanted a dialysis patient photographed whilst using a new piece of technology that the hospital have bought. Felt rather strange to have my photo taken whilst I was in bed! At least I had my clothes on.

Not sure what today will bring - a friend was coming to coffee but she is poorly so I may adventure out in the car again.