Day 19: Better day

WCC: 0.3

Hb: 80

Neut: 0.0

Platelets: 12

Weight: 62kg

Sunday

Still nothing eventful today (which is good) except a bag of platelets for me.

Woke today with sore eyes - so too much time on screen yesterday did not help, but tonight, after having visitors all afternoon and not looking at a screen, they are feeling OK.

Spent the morning resting eyes so didn't end up getting into the shower until after 10.00am. Had just spoken to the Dr about losing hair - as if anything, my hair seems to be growing very quickly and no sign of it falling out. However, (at the risk of over sharing again) I discovered in the shower that hair is starting to fall out (but not on my head yet). So. it's only a matter of time ..

I find myself obsessing over food. I could probably go all day easily without eating much at all but I keep trying to think of what I feel like . Nothing really has any taste. Last night I ate some hospital choc mousse, but it just tasted like eating foam. Today Anth bought in some garlic bread which I polished off and some pasta with a 'spicy' tomato sauce. Well, Anth (who likes hot, spicy food) said he thought it had a kick to it - but I certainly couldn't taste that. As much as it was nice to eat real food - there wasn't any real flavour to it. So back to the drawing board for what might actually deliver some spice/flavour. And apologies to the nurses who now come into my closed room to garlic breath!

I had some watermelon and that was OK - still a bit metallic, but the flavour did cut through at least a little.

Went for a walk this afternoon after the platelets. This was the first time I've been outside in 2 weeks and it felt good. The problem is walking around with a mask - when I am walking, I am normally trying to take long, deep breaths to try and get as much oxygen in as possible. With a mask on this is difficult and it soon feels like I can't catch my breath, which then makes walking around more challenging.

I feel I will sleep well tonight