The 30th & 31st; I am still here.

The 30th of July.  Not quite one's average Sunday. The morning was fairly standard - Sunday Brunch, blog post. This week's comedian pal appearing on the show was Joel, who ate some chips in order to make Nish lose a wager. 

After taking Grandma home from church, Mommy and I went into Sutton to get Pandora charms for today and August. I also got a chocolate dreamcake Krispy Kreme because it's a day to celebrate. In the end, I went for the anchor charm at Pandora, because they describe it as the "symbol of hope" and hope was all we had at that point. My chances were 20% of 20%, which works out at 4%, and yet somehow, nine years since my second stem cell transplant, I am still here. 

When we got back, we had lunch, and I spoke to a girl who is interested in adopting Betty. She actually happened to be very near my house when we talked, so she came round straight away. Betty was her usual charming self, coming straight up and purring away like a champion. It seemed to go well; she's gone away to think about it and fingers crossed she wants her. 

The 31st of July. 

My brain was very busy in the night, dreaming about all sorts of things. 

This morning, I worked on the panda head while communicating with Philippa to find out if James had sent my referral to the lymphoedema clinic. She said it had definitely gone, so then I rang the clinic who confirmed that they'd received it, but I won't get an appointment until October! SIGH. I'm going to have to find someone else to see because I can't do nothing for another two months. 

After lunch, I went up to the QE to see Dean. He was starting his chemo today so it was a good day to go before he starts feeling too ghastly. Although he wasn't feeling wonderful today, bless him. Issues with chemo timing hadn't helped, and pharmacy were being dreadful - his chemo was meant to be at one, but it still hadn't appeared on the ward when I left at twenty to five. He is taking his mum to see Miss Saigon tonight and I really hope they got there because he's been looking forward to this for ages. It was nice to meet his mum and younger brother; I have heard much about them so it was nice to have faces to put to names. 

Tonight I'm off to Denise's for a Cats Protection meeting to try to work out what we're going to do about homing.