MTCJ — 5 May 2022

Today has been a day of ups and downs. This will be a short post, as it’s late, I’m tired and not feeling great.

The day started well. After taking a sleeping pill last night, I slept better than I had for over a week. I started my morning routine of toilet, wiegh in, shower, walk until breakfast, have breakfast, continue walk until the first pre-chemo hydration bottle was ready for me. Despite the good night’s sleep, I felt the leaden tiredness. The rest of the day was up & down — sometimes with energy, making calls, starting a blog post about my surgery, and the daily highlight: my wife’s visit. 1 hour a day, 1 visitor, from day 3 onwards, that’s all that’s allowed. Still, it gives me so much! Also nice: a 15 minute easy workout with the sports oncologist. A few warm up and mobility exercises, followed by some exercises with an exercise band. Short, but nice to feel my muscles again.

On the other hand: tiredness, nausea, general unwellness. Acid reflux, driven by frequent gas eruption from my digestive tract.

On the positive side: after yet another weight gain of around 1kg (2 pounds), conditions were met to give me some meds to flush out excess water. Result: frequent need to pee, with improvement of my overall wellbeing.

My appetite indicates indicates I must be pregnant: dinner was a pretzel with butter and a giant gherkin, followed by an orange, a tiny tub of liver pâté, another orange, 2 slices of bread with butter and jam, all washed down with a cup of camomile tea. Yum!

A chaotic day, as far as my wellbeing is concerned, is coming to an end. I’ll close for today and focus on preparing for tonight’s football match (for those of you from the US: that’s soccer): Eintracht Frankfurt play West Ham United in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League semi finals. Frankfurt start with a 2:1 win from the away leg, and of course, the incredible atmosphere of the Waldstadion will do its bit (apparently the loudest stadium in Europe outside of Turkey). Go Eintracht!