Zombie's Cancer Journey: The Beginning of the End

[IamtheZombie]

Previous thread is HERE

Five years on from my first treatment, the options have pretty much run out.

Please join us for the rest of the journey. Doom and gloom is absolutely banned. There are still laughs and love to share and celebrate.

Zombie, hopefully you are feeling well enough to do some Christmas shopping, and maybe some retail therapy for yourself.perhaps a ( few) new jumper or top to wear on Christmas Day ! Do you know how Zombielads wedding arrangements are coming along, will you be able to watch it on Skype or something ?

For cheapish every day gin may recommend Lidl's offerings?
Fair nice they do flavoured ones too

Good evening, phalanx!

I look at what my mother did for us (there is only 2 of us, my DB and I) when we were kids and I have No Clue how she did it - she was a SAHM, but we had so many activities and every meal was home cooked from scratch and she had friends and interests and, you know, did stuff. No idea how she fitted it all in.
She's not dead btw, she is 75 and doing really well, but does not have to drive us to swimming lessons any more

magi, you got there first - 'Hortus', that's the one

Hope you are having a more fair than middling day, Zombie

Yes, I too have been wondering how Z is.

Am almost at bottom of a large pinot which so far is not taking the edge off dd's whingeing about a hurty hip and sore knee. have persuaded her to take two ibuprofen but she's working herself up about not having time for a dr's apt. I think she's just overdone rehearsals, etc. But sometimes she does get a sore hip.

Hugs to the zombie. I hope there is someone you can cry with (or on here) if you need to.

Oh sweet Zombie. Just read your update. Completely understand lass.

I know you don't know me from Adam or Eve, but know a stranger on the net is thinking of you.

Just FYI I'm crap with criers. Absolutely awful. But there wpuld be loads of people on here doing a good job and I'd make the tea and replenish the tissues x

Hello hello
Hoping Z is relaxing
It's mad weather isn't it? 10 degrees warmer here than it was yesterday!
And rain tomorrow
Ds1(13) had food tech today - pretzels. Lovely I thought - I will have one with a cup of tea at 4...except he SOLD them to his friends for £1 each!!!
I am an odd mix of horrified and proud - a metaphor for parenting there if ever there was one!
Ds1 and I have had a very deep discussion this evening about world politics and the lessons we could learn from history - I feel quote wrung out now!
Ds2 is 8 so most convos are either about minecraft or animals and who could kill what

I am now watching a documentary on Greek art
rock and roll
I can't join in on the gin love I'm afraid - very bad experience drinking gin and bitter Lemon when I was about 22 - but I do love me a Bellini lightweight
Have a good night all x esp you Z X

I am very good with criers - whether they need a shoulder to cry on or be told to pull themselves together or somebody to cry with them

Badders, Suralan would be proud!

Hope you're doing okay today, Zombie.

The number of posters on your thread who refer to gin as an every day drink is shocking, BTW. Your phalanx won't manage a nice neat formation for much longer with that level of imbibing. They might accidentally start stabbing each other with their sarissas.

Hope your AGA is back on and behaving itself better than my underfloor heating. I've got over a thousand of my books in my living room - well did have, until I packed them up earlier. DP's got some friends over to help him move boxes and bookcases as the flooding keeps getting worse. A house full of young-ish, cute men who are rescuing books has quite made my evening.

He is bent on world domination Pacific, I'm sure
Bit worrying, really
And dh always says it's my influence when the DC do anything...er...morally dodgy
Should have paid more attention in Sunday school I guess and not spent it snogging Richard gaffney round the back of the hall

Ha! Yes
I laughed at the "everyday gin" comment

An every day pinot has a heart on it sometimes . I fully get the concept of everyday gin. It's like me wearing an M&S dress to work but not to a lovely party.

Reflecting further, you know like Zombie isn't an every day human if that isn't a sine qua non for a Zombie.

For me an everyday gin is a nice drink for an ordinary evening rather than literally everyday. I like to save the more expensive ones for special occasions.

purple

Evening.

I've had to spend the best part of every day in bed since Saturday. Today, I have finally managed to spend almost the entire day out of bed (a 2 hour nap being the only exception). I really hope this means I've turned the corner. This certainly confirms for me that I could never, ever have coped with the travel required for the trial.

Maybe by the weekend I'll feel up to exploring Amazon for some Christmas gifts.

It's good to read that you are all entertaining yourselves so well.

Well. Amazon.

Santa here shops almost exclusively with Amazon.
Two (two!!) deliveries have now gone to 'door Nr 7 Joe Bloggs'/door Nr 7 Jane Bloogs' in the last 48 hours.

There. Is. No. Nr7. In. Our. Street.
It does not exist.
And I have no idea who Joe or Jane might be - I'm sure they are nice but they, apparently, have my kids' Lego!!

Contacting Amazon Logistics was an Interesting Experience

So, good luck, Zombie.
Glad today was a Better Day

Well Somer, we've managed to stay upright and tight for more than three years with quite a high level of imbibing.

I think we'll be able to sustain that for as long as is necessary.

And we've always favoured the longer sarissa spears, they make the flags flutter so prettily

Thing is Roses, Zombie is an everyday human.

That's what makes her amazing.

We is all tuff.

We drink gin as others drink water.

Phalanx!

Stand to attention!

Triple gin ration now being poured!

That does sound like a corner turned Zomb, I can see you actually gaining strength over the coming months without having to endure any toxic, debilitating treatments.

Online shopping is fab, lovely surprises every day (because I've forgotten what I ordered)

Lovely that you can now just concentrate on what you want and how you want it for Christmas with your new ZFamily.

I'm off the gin
I have a new baby puppy and we are co sleeping and I am mostly standing in the garden at ungodly hours suggesting she goes wee wee!
But I love puppy cuddles!
Still miss gin though. Sink one for me phalanx!

Oh, and thanks Keeper of the Gin.

Triple rations

You can have mine.

xxx

Triple gin ration eh? What have we done to deserve that?

B3 is, as always totally correct, we are all dab hands with the sarissa, and look great in our panoply. I favour the dory myself as you use it one handed, so you have the other hand free for your glass of gin.
Clincalissimo Phalanx!

for zombie I'm glad you felt well enough to spend most of today out of bed.
DS2 has spent most of the evening out of the bed, although still asleep.