Today was quite eventful and I did double the amount of steps that I normally take. I totally forgot to write in my blog today as I have been busy all day. I went to My Mother’s Place to get some soup, as it is something that I like to eat during the day. It sits well and I can eat a lot of it I think. I decided to give my bike to Xavier as he needed a new bike and I can barely walk, let alone bike. We brought the bike in to get a tune-up and to get new pedals for Xavier put on the bike. When we went into the store, and they were showing us the pedals, Xavier asked which were the best pedals and he chose those, but they only had them in chrome and the ones that were one step down had them in a colour that matched the bike, so we ended up getting those so it all matches. People at the store thought I had a red bike as they know that is my favotite colour and what I had wanted for a long time. When Xavier breaks this bike we will get him a new one as my bike is quite old now. Mel’s father came over to help trim the hedges and to load of the trucks for dump runs and while he was using the chainsaw he realized that we were out of gas, so Mel asked me to go get some gas. I had just finished running all of my other errands and came home to do that and I realized that I was tired by that point and was struggling to actually carry the full can up the driveway and had to get Mel to help me out. I think one of the contributing factors was that i was expending quite a lot more energy and did not really increase my food intake. Today I finished with closer to 2500 steps, while most of the time I am around 1000. My weight seems to be steadily increasing by approximately a pound a day. I personally feel that it seems that I am getting a bit of fluid build up in my abdomen as It seems that I can eat slightly less right now than what I could from the last couple of weeks, but I am not 100% sure about it.
My food intake has been ok today, but I think that I have plataued for how much i can eat and it is a bit more stable now. For lunch we have charcuterie and some of the tinned fish from Spain. I had quickly heated up the razor clams in a garlic butter with some lemon. Olivier saw it on the plate and wanted to try it and he loved it. I asked him why he did not try this at all when we were in Spain and we had fresh ones and he said he did not know. I had also ordered some cultured butter from France and everyone loved it. It is so much better tasting than what we can get here. We also had white Cantabrian anchovies and everyone enjoyed them. They are a much more mild flavour compared to the salted one. I like them with some buttered baguette and a filet on top. It is delicious. We also had them with chips and some aged sherry vinegar like we had in Spain. Xavier had eaten a lot of this in Spain so he had enjoyed it Olivier tried it as well as the tuna loin and he enjoyed all of it in the comfort of our home, but for some reason he did not want to try any of thghis in Spain and just focused on his croquettes and sandwiches.
Last night I had only gotten up twice to go to the washroom and have my two meals. I think that I want to try and stop doing this as it is making me a bit tired during the day at times. I am able to still fall asleep fairly quick, but after the boost my stomach makes noises for a while and it will also sometimes trigger a bowel movement so I need to go to the washroom to deal with that. My blood pressure throughout today was ok, It was in the high 80’s as compared to it being in the 90’s the last couple of days, I have not taken it after I have taken the pills to increase my blood pressurem but I have not had any incidents of light headedness today at all. I think that it is getting a bit better as time goes by, I am starting to adjust to some of the changes. We will see what Chemo does next week to this schedule,
My parents got back to me about going to Toronto and they are wary of going because my dad has some issues with his foot hurting when he walks for long distnces or too much. I understand, as I can not really go for very long. So I do not think that they will end up coming with us if we go. They said that they will decide later on and we can always adjust our reservation afterwards but I do not think that they will be joining us on this trip. It gives us a bit more flexibility with room in the van if it is just our immediate family though.
Dr. QHM