Session 23

Session 23 March 24
Today was busy in spite of ostensibly being a day off. My morning was spent on household stuff and catching up on blogs for Monday and Tuesday. Then I went shopping for Patrick's birthday present on College followed by a pleasant hour and a half in Gus and Suzi's backyard, with them of course. I headed up to my 23rd at 5 and confirmed I could not park at CNIB because the building would be closed when I came out. How inconsiderate of them. Not surprisingly for the end of the day SYN1 was running very late, not because of patients but because of system crashes. My team was apologetic but I knew it was through no fault of theirs. Naturally I was parked in the $2/half hour lot and before I got in for treatment had to make a trip to the lot to pay for earlier optimism. By the time we were done it was $16.

My therapists confirmed that this was session 23 and the change would start on Thursday. They also reminded me that even though the field of irradiation would be smaller the effect of radiation is cumulative so warned against looking for immediate relief of side effects. I got out about 7 and went to the Metro at Eglinton and Bayview for groceries, strongly wishing I had done the shop in the morning. Cherie called while I was there and we agreed on fish for supper. I got some very expensive organic salmon, but hey we’re worth it. She had the veg. ready when I got home but it was well after 8 when we ate. The weather was good and I cranked up the BBQ for the first time in a while. Still it was late; I was bone tired and had to be back at 9:20 the next morning.