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.

Hello, hello, hello!!!

Just had to tell someone, we think we might have passed the survey stage in our flat-selling!!! DP told me this afternoon that he'd had a message from the estate agent but I think it's only just sinking in what a big hurdle that is...

One step closer to becoming crazy cat lady!!!

So have the Apprentice nicked the gin storyline from The Archers. There's one going on there too.

Fid I love that story! Did about a year of German, we must have been 14, I suppose. We made a poor supply teacher's life hell. One day we replaced the white chalk below the board with tampons with the strings cut off. Poor guy

That's a lovely story Fid

A year of Latin was compulsory at grammar school in about 1965, I thought was utterly boring and pointless

Just that tiny exposure has been invaluable in so many ways.

I used to get the wooden blackboard cleaner thrown at me

Posted before catching up.

I lived in Amsterdam for 2 years and during that time I went right off spliff smoking (!) and was converted to drinking by the liqueur tasting bars.

I loved the tradition of pouring the drink beyond the top of the glass so you had to bend and slurp the first taste!

Those of you who didn't get to study much Classics - don't worry, you only missed out on a subject so niche that it leads to absolutely no job offers.

The solution to stopping my floors leaking was the rather drastic one of turning off all water supply to my house. So apologies if I'm stinking this thread out. Hopefully a rather more workable plan will be found sometime soon.

That does sound drastic Somer, how soon till it's fixed?

On reflection,I think "bend and slurp" is quite a good Phalanx motto?

Zombie sweetheart, don't get too caught up with organising things too far down the line.

I know you, you want all 'i's dotted and all 't's crossed.

Let it be. Look after you.

I've never used dry shampoo before. How intriguing.

It'll be fixed after they start pulling up my flooring some time next week. We were going to a wedding on Saturday anyway so now we're making a weekend of it. Bottled water and baby wipes won't cut it.

Hope you're feeling okay today Zombie.

Not meant to be a ref. to that daffy movie " bend and snap" to snare a bloke ffs.

I like 'bend and slurp and flutter' (flags) too.

Fatty

What's with the counting to ten in Korean?😂

I wish I could drink, MiniZing is sick since Wed and ZingBoy5 & Zinglette have just been puking all over the beds, twice. I haven't actually slept yet.
At least I don't have to worry about school runs tomorrow (the other 4 go on bus/walk)

Good morning, Zombie and phalanx

Zing, you poor thing - young children should come with a health warning...
Hope they feel better soon

Y'all gin haters just haven't tried the right one yet. They're not all flowery. Get thee to a gin bar & work through the menu

We've got a rosemary & olive one, two different honey ones, a cardamom one.....

zing I did tae kwon do as a kid (I started when I was 3, but my dad kicked off and made me quit after a year or so, so I only ever got my yellow tag) and we had to learn how to count in Korean.
It's stuck in my head.

Royal, would you recommend tae kwon do for little ones then? Do you remember enjoying it? I'm thinking about my two taking up a martial art and am wondering which one.

Ooh HRF - I did Korean karate (not that much different to Japanese) and can count up to ten in both. I managed to get to purple belt then gave up because I met DH & preferred other activities on a Friday and Sunday (training days). Plus I was rehearsing and doing the actual plays at weekends after that.

I may need to use rusty skills on NDN's son who was playing his bloody music ALL NIGHT. Still at it at 5am. DH couldn't hear a thing but a mouse farting would wake me up. He only does it when mummy & daddy are out / away. I wouldn't mind but he's 30 if he's a day!

Zombie Hope your day is going well. How have your trials of internet grocery shopping been? Hope you've not had any disasters with it.
Have a snug day by the AGA!

Hope you do better with your shopping than me Zombie , having awful trouble finding things suitable. Off out to meet some of my siblings now in cafe for late breakfast, we do this every Friday.

MrsWembley I lived it and I'd go back now but since having spd my hips and back are knackered and couldn't handle it.

Afternoon all.

Yesterday was a step backward day. Tummy was miserable. I suspect I'm still not getting the OraMorph / Movicol balance quite right. When that goes out of sync, it takes a day or two to get it right again. Anyway, this morning I'm up and almost comfortable. (I have had a sneaky little nap between 1 - 2.)

Something odd also happened yesterday. It was about midday and I was back in bed and had just drifted off to sleep. I was woken by someone knocking on the front door of the house. For those who don't know, all vehicular and pedestrian access is at the back of the house. No one, and I mean NO ONE, ever walks all the way around the house to knock on the front door. I got up (disturbing my momentarily comfortable tummy) and looked out of the window. There was a man standing there. When he saw me he indicated that he would go back around the house. But, by the time I'd got my dressing gown on and made it downstairs to open the back door, there was no one to be seen. I called out a few times but no one appeared. I re-locked the door, checked all the windows and went back to bed.

He was probably looking for someone he knew by sight, and once he'd seen you he realized he was at the wrong house, so indicated that he was going away.
Glad you feel a bit better today, you've had a lot of unheaval recently so no wonder your tummy is playing up.

Zombie, sorry to hear yesterday was not so good, but glad that today is a wee bit better - you just keep taking that Movicol. I know it can be vile not that delicious, but you are seriously better overdoing it that allowing the morphine to paralyse you gut completely.
Are you able to eat? Fresh oranges? Or whatever agrees with you?

How v odd about the man... I hope you feel safe, odd episode notwithstanding.

I agree, probably had the wrong house and possibly the gesture was 'Oh, it's another house over there' rather than 'I'll come round front'?

Bit scary Zombie, watch out for yourself.

Gin bars in Amsterdam. I was there for about 5 years. We lived close to one (very famous & old) called Wijnand Fockinck. Sounds like Wine And Fucking and it was most definitely a bend and slurp place

Oh yes, bend and slurp ~ you've got to love it!
One of my favourite Amsterdam bars is De Drie Fleschjes, a real bend and slurp place!

Maybe the mystery man was trying to deliver PD's Lego sets. If he comes again sellotape a map to your front window with a Phalanx symbol and massive red arrow towards her general location.

Seriously it is odd when something like that happens and you're trying to rest.

Continuing the multilingual theme, I've been learning Swedish (avoiding writing reports) by watching Modus. I now know thank you = tack, hi/bye = Hej, and importantly, that "absolut" is not just a vodka.