Will you still love me to-marrow - John Mycroft and Multiple Myeloma

Yesterday, Susan drove me to Wake Forest for another checkup and a load of shots.  (She drove because I have managed to catch an evil cold which has rendered me more moronic than usual.)  On the way there and back, we both developed a deep loathing for people driving large pickups which seem to come with a "road ownership certificate".  I got about 2 hours sleep last night, crumbling into bed and going to sleep almost instantly but waking up at 12:30 a.m. convinced that was all the sleep I needed.  I beg to differ. Anyway, I have a comparatively busy day at school today.  I suspect some of the robotics class will need a hand getting some of their monsters operational while I want to start working with the programming class on making their programs idiot-proof (I wonder if I am allowed to use that term). My upper arms hurt from the barrage of 8 shots I had yesterday (the nurses work in pairs, shoving their needles in at the same time from opposite sides which ge...

I'm now on maintenance with Revlimid - a mere 10 mg a day for 3 weeks and then a week off (am I repeating myself?  Dunno - memory's not what it used to be.)  I am reliably informed that I can have a beer or two as well as some non-alcoholic Clausthaler.  Considering Clausthaler's healthy ingredients like malt, it probably qualifies as a health food.  Anyway, this is my week off and I am making the most of it as I certainly feel better when not guzzling even the small Revlimid torpedoes. Susan & I drove to High Point over the weekend (I drove there and didn't doze off once though the lane wandering warning in her new car did talk to me a few times) for parents' weekend at the university.  Sam has joined the improv group, Charcoal Pony, and they have taken him onboard as if they've known him for years. I'm getting plenty of enjoyable exercise - reffed 3 soccer games last weekend including a women's game which was a hoot: they all knew each other and ...

And now I have a week of taking nothing for my cancer.  I'd hoped that would get rid of this dopey feeling but I suspect that the dopey feeling is attributable to the cold that Susan & I have got.  Durr.  Anyhoo, tthings are progressing well and I do indeed have a whole 7 days when I don't take anything followed by a reduction from 25 mg a day to 10 mg a day.  And no more intravenous stuff, either. I celebrated today by getting up a ladder (not very far) for the first time in over a year, mostly to remove a few cobwebs from the living room ceiling.  It's 18' high and the bloody spiders had built their webs right at the top.  Sods. At least we haven't been affected by Hurricane Harvey though I do have to wonder how many more of those we have to go through before some of our idiots in Washington concede that there may some climate change going on.  I was going to play my guitar this afternoon but managed to scald my left hand at lunchtime (interest...