Suspect it may change post baby !

First day of chemo completed today and followed by my second radiotherapy session, so a long day in “the office” – almost 11 hours.

Emma had suggested a day or two earlier that, as my wedding ring had fallen off a few times since the weight loss, that it would be better to take it off and keep it safe and reinstate it after the treatment,  when I should put the weight back on.

Having safely stored the ring this morning I informed Emma of the fact. In turn Emma says that it will feel strange for me when it comes to putting it back on. I said I didn’t think so as I seemed to manage it OK every time I go out with the boys for a night out.  I looked for the death stare (believe me you don’t want to be on the receiving end of that) but no, she just laughed.  It’s at times like this when I really appreciate that Emma played hockey because as with anyone who has played team sport, she so gets the banter and she still finds my sense of humour funny. I put this down to the fact that we are somehow still in the honeymoon period of our relationship but suspect it may change post baby !

Everything went reasonably well today but in particular I was pleased with the pre-chemo health check where my pulse was recorded at 56 BPM and the lovely Nurse (Jane) asked me if I was an athlete and said that I had the pulse of a marathon runner.  She probably had spotted the lack of a wedding ring and was hitting on me. The fact that Emma was sat there was not a problem as I took the opportunity to introduce her as my older sister.

Given that a couple of weeks ago at Bootcamp my metabolic age was measured using highly accurate scales which suggested that I had the metabolic age of a 37 year old, I therefore think I had every right to suggest Emma was older than me, as far as suggesting she might be my sister – I suspect that the death stare was not that far away!