Well...another week has passed. 16/37 radiotherapy treatments behind us and 21 to go - that equates to another 5 trips to Adelaide. We should have counted the trips to date but it must be around twenty since January. That's 120 hours of travelling. Plenty of time to get to know one another and for Rick "to rest his eyes" while I do the driving.
Apart from all of that, I chose to drive to Salt Creek - 2 hours 15 minutes - to teach my usual day of Music, Art and SOSE on Thursday - and to make it back to Adelaide just in time to get Rick to his 6.20pm appointment. Needless to say I'm exhausted.
Rick has worked for 3 weeks of the year and doesn't look like going back to work until at least July at this stage. Some side effects have started to appear but they are not debilitating and are under control. The oncologist says everything is progressing normally at this stage but we won't know how effective the treatment has been until some weeks after it has all finished, so I guess that means even more trips for checkups.
After consulting a physiotherapist and a personal trainer at SportsMed, and for the sake of his cardiac rehabilitation he has joined the Sportsmed Gym (for the next month), a 10 minute walk from the unit - more for some variety to his fitness regime than anything else. And the fact that the weather is now turning and he feels the cold dreadfully these days.
This weekend at home we are taking things very quietly - the travelling is wearing us down - so we might stay in the city next weekend - it's also Mother's Day, so we might be due for a rest.
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