Getting prepared

Later today the Fox is due for his second massage. This time he’s really looking forward to it. Clearly he found it did him some good. He’s aware now how tense his body is becoming once more & so feels the need of the relax the massage forces. I’m hoping, too, that I will have another good conversation in the lounge. I will be taking my puzzle book just in case I’m on my own.

It has to be admitted, Slynedales, the house Cancer Care is based in, is a lovely, peaceful building with good Georgian proportions. It’s surrounded by trees that give the place a rural feeling even though it is on the outskirts of the city of Lancaster.  The very building is conducive to a feeling of escape from the worries of the world, & I suppose, of cancer.

As last time, we shall follow the massage with the fight around Morrisons supermarket. We were reassured to notice a delivery van coming from there yesterday so hopefully the shelves have been restocked after the pre-Christmas onslaught. Regardless we need a shop this week. After the New Year Bank Holiday, I will be starting my radiotherapy so when we will get another chance is anybody’s guess. I’m hoping if we’re well stocked up at the start we will only need the odd top up while the course goes on. We’ll certainly need milk & probably bread but those can be bought from the local corner shops as we pass. The freezer’s fairly full up with pre-prepared meals that will just need heating up in an evening.

My anxiety about the food shop is due to not knowing the daily schedule but knowing just the trip down to Preston is going to be time-consuming & exhausting, as well as being unsure as to how I will react to the actual treatment. Hopefully all will go well. We gather from another patient we chatted to last time we were down in Preston, that there is a big Booth’s supermarket just opposite the hospital though we saw no sign of it the way we came in. Maybe that will be the answer.