Thursday was a terrible day, everything pointed to a relapse. There's almost nothing else that fits in with drenching night sweats, fever and my inability to gain weight other than Hodgkin's, menopause or Tuberculosis. (I think we can rule out the last two).
Then Thursday night came and I had no sweating, same again on Friday night. I really, really hope this continues! My PET scan is booked for Friday 31st October (next week) so I will know for sure either way in about two weeks time.
The doctors in Germany are putting together a plan in case of relapse and will advise me early next week. It would be great to be able to tell them it was a false alarm. They have advised me that my stem cells are in perfect condition and awaiting my direction as what to do with them. I shall wait for the PET result before deciding on whether to bring them back to NZ.
Meanwhile I have my first motorsport event tomorrow. It's a street sprint at Port rd, Seaview. I took my race car out for a drive yesterday to see how it felt. It's been six months since I last drove it. I floored it just once as I overtook a slow moving van going up Haywards hill. I kept it in third gear rather than down changing to second even though I was only going 40kph, regardless of this the acceleration still slammed me into my seat and I was almost on the vans bumper before I had turned the wheel enough to steer around it. In just two or three seconds seconds I'd well and truly broken the speed limit and had to brake hard to pull it back down to 100kph before I attracted unwanted attention.
The adrenaline made my hands shake and my heart pound for about 5 minutes after. I'm not sure how I'm going to do at the actual race. With my system so fragile at the moment and adrenaline being such a powerful toxin, I will have to be careful.
I'll let you know how I go. I must say though.. it's a lot more exciting than a stroll in the Bavarian country side!
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