1 week, 3 days post round 2

Talk about a rollercoaster ride! Last time I wrote things were doing ok other than some leg pain... so I thought to myself, it's time to see the kids again (I hadn't seen them since before my treatment began as I wanted to shield them from any nasty experiences) so on Wednesday they came home which was so lovely. After they had thoroughly disinfected themselves, it was lovely to get cuddles and hear all about their week over Taco Wednesday (well, we didn't have them on Tuesday so it got pushed back a day!) Thursday came along and oh my goodness... the pain turned into stomach cramps, vomiting and essentially me lying on the bathroom floor screaming into the bathroom mat so the kids couldn't hear me and without any help from Nick because he was keeping up appearances with the kids so they could remain blissfully unaware of the excruciating pain I was in. That sucked... balls... big time. The one thing I was hoping to protect the kids from was unravelling before my very eyes and it was hard.

Couple that with Seb choosing to have a 10 year old crisis of the school friend variety, and Lani starting to feel unwell it was not what I had planned.... oh shall I elaborate? Well on Friday morning Lani complains of a sore throat, by the afternoon she is super unwell and needs to be picked up and off she goes to the doctors. By Saturday morning it's 99% certain she has Scarlet Fever... oh dear... and now Nick has a sore throat... double oh dear... here I am sitting here wondering.. what does that mean for me? when all I should be worried about it my poor little chicken! (oh yeah, and my husband!!). Thankfully Lani's mum is a superstar and keeps me updated on how she is progressing and looks after her for us (can she take Nick too I'm was wondering?? lol) . I spoke to my GP and I got a preemptive script for some antibiotics so the first sign of a sore throat I can get started. Nick also sees a GP and get's started on some antibiotics too... crisis somewhat averted. It has an incubation period of 1-2 weeks so we'll see how we go.

Sunday though, we decided to go to a friend's place to celebrate a birthday and gosh it was nice, to be amongst other adults, having adult conversations and feeling normal, in clothes other than PJ's and trackies. Putting on makeup was a nice change after days on end where showering was the extent of my beauty regime!!

I may have pushed it slightly as I was in a truck load of pain last night and hardly slept, and today I feel tired but you know, it was all worth it, life is about living and talking calculated risks... you don't earn rewards without experiencing a little bit of pain!