Today we had a 9am appointment for a skeletal xray to see if there are any lesions and Jimmy had his bone marrow biopsy at 12pm. We were in the peak of morning traffic into Cape Town so Megan dropped Loren and Emma at school.
I am feeling rather tired in spite of long weekend with lots of relaxation and when I mentioned this to Jimmy he told me that each time he moves in bed during the night, I wake up. Human instinct is a strange thing.
The xray went well, took about 45 minutes. The biopsy took about 20 minutes and Jimmy said it was a bit painful but more a strange feeling than anything else. His calcium levels are still very high so they took more bloods today and in the meantime Jimmy has to take 40 Cortisone tablets at once after breakfast. We were supposed to get the results on Friday but Prof is fully booked so don't know if we will have any news after all. We do however have to go back to the oncology Clinic, he is now officially registered as an Oncology patient, on Friday for more blood tests. They have said again that if his calcium levels aren't down he will be admitted for 4 days to intravenously flush his kidneys. Apart from backache, Jimmy is not really feeling sick so he asked Prof if he could go to work tomorrow and he was told under no circumstances as he needs to rest, they are worried about his kidneys.
We got home to Megan informing me that her car battery is flat because she left her lights on. Loren got a puncture in her motorbike wheel and I had asked Stan to sort it out for me today but he phoned to say there was nowhere in Fish Hoek that could repair it and that he would take the bike to Muizenberg on the bakkie tomorrow. I'm like....give me a break....doesn't anything go smoothly!!
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