Shiver and shine (2)

The celebration issue

My news is that it is mid-week and I went to pick up my organic vegetable box this morning. I did not ask any passerby for help, carrying it to the car. I’m looking forwards to going to work in an hour. I’m feeling VERY joyful.

Just as it is hard to recall extreme pain once it has passed, I can tell you, - in a way that seems almost unreal to myself,- that for the last three weeks, mid-week, I have been suddenly struck with violent exhaustion (and very high temperatures.) Last Tuesday, for example, it struck while I was speaking to my eldest daughter online. ‘Got to go, NOW,’ I let her know. As I had to go to work in a couple of hours I went to bed, and asked my partner to wake me an hour before work with coffee, paracetamol and food. This toxic mix got me out of the house, but a couple of hours later I could hardly hold my head up straight. Back in bed I tried to drink water before my head hit the pillow, and then woke at midnight, dehydrated, with a strange bundle of nightmares. For the next 24 hours I was only able to stagger to the bathroom.

Celebrate Today

And so has been, every week for the last three. And today the spell has been broken.

FUNDRAISING

I have metastatic melanoma. Half a year of immunotherapy at my local hospital in Poole, and a clinical trial at The Royal Marsden brought me to an extremely serious state of health. I am now having life saving Dendritic Cell Therapy in a clinic in Germany, as this personalised form of immunotherapy is not yet available in the UK.

Please support me with hope, and vital financial funding! The smallest amount helps me pay for a vaccine, and two low dose immunotherapy IV treatments.

Here’s my JUSTGIVING PAGE.