I didn’t mean to not write for this long. I expected to miss the weekend because I was visiting Horatio. I thought I might write Monday night; but travel, Scrabble and plain tiredness meant I didn’t. I spent Tuesday in hospital getting my infusion.

I woke up early, I had a shower, ate breakfast and got myself put together. I walked to the hospital in the rain and arrived for 10am. They took MRSA swabs, placed a cannula and took some blood samples. I had a steroid injection and a piriton injection. Finally, the drip was started. The dose of rituximab was in a litre of fluid and they start the drip at 50ml/h. I had a mild reaction around the 100ml/h mark [started sneezing, my eyes and ears got ichy and my throat felt like it was closing off]. They left the flow slower for 20 minutes and then I felt fine so we were eventually able to reach the maximum of 250ml/h.

I finished reading The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks. I played a few games of Scrabble on my DS. When the lunch cart came round, I asked for whatever vegetarian sandwich she had. She offered the tuna. I said tuna was a fish, an animal. I ended up with watercress soup. Thankfully, I came prepared and had some peanuts & cashews and a cereal bar. I probably could have forced the issue, but I really wasn’t up to it. I used the free wi-fi on my phone and read a few feeds. At 4:15 it was done and I called a taxi.

It is incredible how tiring it can be sitting all day. My brain was sluggish. I feel like I’m still out of whack. The steroids brought insomnia as usual and yesterday I kept wanting to eat. Last night I couldn’t fall asleep until around 3am. I woke just after 9 so I’m confident I can get back to normal tonight or tomorrow.

As said, I was in Leeds last weekend, Horatio and I had one of our best weekends ever. We watched our one new episode of Castle and started watching JJ Abrams’ Alcatraz. We played a little Magic Ball and Gran Terismo on PS3. We finished season two of Alias. We had many yummy things, burgers with salad and chips, had pizza twice. Domino’s has an offer on for three small pizzas for £5.55 each. We buy three each, eat two and have the leftover one for breakfast. I took a box of fudge graham crackers and a pack cinnamon rolls to him. We played Scrabble and Cribbage. Best word for me: ‘epilate’ – very pleased.

On my journey home, I walk past two Subways. This time I decided to count my steps between: 280. Amazes me that they both manage to stay in business. I ate my breakfast pizza on the train. When I changed trains, I managed to get on the wrong one. I was waiting on the right platform, the next two trains listed would be fine for me. A train pulled up, I got on. Then I realised I was on the wrong train, thankfully, I could get off at the next station and on my correct train so no harm done. Never done anything like that before.

Two bits of random before I go. When I was cleaning out the spare bedroom in preparation for the new bed I found an ancient used condom in wardrobe. I’m certain it was there when we moved in seven years ago. I have added it to the list of strange things I’ve found left by previous tenants. In our old flat we found a pair of knickers behind a radiator, an inhaler and a photography of a woman in her underwear.

I’m subscribed to my local Groupon and recently an offer came through for Owl Hanging. There is a lovely visual there of tidying one’s owl and hanging it on rods by its feet. There’s a chance that I misread it though; owl handling experience makes a little more sense.