Good morning 4am! Woke up drenched again and needing the toilet and couldn’t go back to sleep. I tried not to pick up my phone so I wouldn’t “wake” up but it was no use. Obviously the steroids mean 4 hours sleep is enough! I caved and went on fb… to see that at dinner last night I shouldn’t have had the ice in my drink. Very good advice and something I had forgotten…. I won’t do that again!

This is how light it is at 4am here! Well it got to 6am and I noticed some bone pain in my ankles knees and legs so I got some painkillers and they took my bloods at the same time. They took the edge off but that was all. I didn’t manage to go back to sleep til 8.00 and then that was only 30 minutes. When breaky came I was ready and waiting and then I skyped the kids. They were sooo not interested in talking to me so I had a good catch up with my mum.

Dr Fedorenko came in and checked me over, bloods are good today. He says my Leukocytes levels indidcate an engraftment peak and are all normal. He then checks my hair and we have a little moment where he says new hair new life! God this man is so sweet!

Hemoglobin = 109
Leukocytes = 16.09 mill
Platelets = 213

A little bit of freedom as now I am getting to the final days here… besides some blood tests and any pain medication I am finished my actual treatment. YAY! My line came out and I had to lay flat for 30 minutes. This is the line, all the white part was in my right down my neck!

Once I was able to get up I had my morning snack and I wasn’t in any more pain. I tried to have a conversation with the kids, it went a bit better and then I sat out on the lounges to wait for Joe. He was doing some errands on the way and when he got here he appeared ‘over it!’ We skyped the babies as before Bianca was upset that her daddy wasn’t there so she had a little cry for him and I promised to call back as soon as he got here. It was the first time in the whole month that they (Bianca today) had appeared upset.

We were talking with others out on the lounge and I went to eat my lunch while it was warm today. Joe wanted something to eat so we located the cafe here after all this time! He had some pork and buckwheat? Perhaps? He said it was really nice. I got an ice tea, but really wanted some chocolate or something sweet they didn’t sell anything, it was all healthy food lol so I managed find another lil kiosk to get some. And my leggings turned up YAY!

On our way back in we called into level 2. There are 2 new aussies here today. Welcome to you both, I wish you all the best but you won’t need it! Your are in the best care!

Joe, Dan and Sonia were off on a mission to find the Beluga Gold Line Vodka at a decent price, traveling on the metro, looking at more beautiful stations and then were heading to catmap for dinner. I sat out on the lounge reading magazines and talking with John until dinner. Dinner was a beef stew, it soo nice but was only a mouthful so I had to cook a packet rice, then a cup of soup too, 4 cruskits with cheese, then I ate a yoghurt and had my nutrition drink. I must have been hungry!

I did a little packing of the extra things Joe brought in today for the declare bag, and a tidy up of any food stuff left over. I have used 2 sugars every morning in my porridge and these are still what I have left over!

Then it was time for house rules and an early night! I cant can’t believe we have only tomorrow and half of Wednesday left here and then we will be on our way home! Please keep your eyes out for an important announcement soon regarding my return home! X