Monday/Tuesday 14th/15th November 2011 Another week .. This time involving treatment

This is rather a mixed week. I will start the week with 2 days of relative normality, hopefully getting through a reasonable amount of work. Today, I have the regular Architecting the Enterprise "Knowledge Pool" teleconference. Tomorrow, I am participating in the first day of a Webinar training course. On Wednesday, I start my fifth treatment cycle with a check-up to make sure that I have recovered sufficiently to go through the whole process again. On Thursday, all being well, I will the fifth infusion of chemo-therapy. On Friday, assuming that I have tolerated the chemo, Sue and I will be heading off on an expedition to Essex, where I will attend the Essex County ASA Annual Dinner in my capacity of President of Hampshire. Monday I woke up just before 8am after the best night's sleep I have had for a long time. I did not have to get up at all during the night and I can't remember when that last happened. I did a little bit of work this morning, but mostly spent time encouraging my PC to boot up, which it did on fourth attempt. Sue and I had lunch with our son John who has a new job and moved into new lodging a couple of weeks ago. He was in good spirits; everything seems to be going well. Later we had an e-mail from our other son, Chris, telling us that he had moved into his new house. I spent the afternoon and quite a lot of the evening working at my PC. Physically today I paid the price for a very active weekend. I have stiff and aching muscles and sore areas on my feet from walking a lot further than I have for a long time. I take these as good signs. I have very little discomfort from my hip itself. Tuesday I was supposed to be supporting one of my colleagues as he delivered a TOGAF training course by webinar today. However, he had some technical problems and I ended up delivering the  2½ hour morning session myself. Sue was worried that I was overdoing things, but in fact, I had no problem concentrating and delivering the modules. Happily, my colleague got his computer working over lunch and was able to take over presentation duties for the afternoon. I still had to sit at my PC to monitor the webinar. We had one or two issues that needed to be addressed, so it was around 6pm when I finally got away from my PC. So I proved that I can do a full day of work, but I was pretty tired when I finished.