Plymouth Mesothelioma Support Group.

My icy street.
The specialist lung nurses and I at the support meeting.
One of the wonderful carers brought in a Christmas cake, One of the specialist nurses got the honour of cutting the cake.

Yesterday was still very cold, ice everywhere so my trip to the support meeting was in jeopardy.

I decided that trying to get my little car out of the garage and struggling with the ice was going to be too much. I called a taxi to take me to Derriford hospital. The roads were fine once we left my street. The meeting was small as a lot of people had difficulty getting in and the car park was overflowing.

We discussed diet with the oncology dietician and got a few helpful tips from her and each other.

The next meeting will be in January, by then I would have been to see to Prof for my first treatment since December 2008.

The specialist nurse said there is a Dr in Derriford who is going to do a survey of patients who are seeing Prof Vogl. The Dr also wants to know more about the treatment and I got the feeling that he/she was very keen on this work.

After the meeting I went in to the city centre on a bus to get the last bits of Christmas presents.

I haven't been on a bus since I passed my test 6 years ago. The driver was very confident with the roads!

I have to say that the transport services in Plymouth have been wonderful how they have coped with the bad weather and how they have got passengers to their destinations the best way they can.

Rich and I went shopping today, we went to a large Sainsbury's store, Again we had a taxi.

After we had finished the shopping, I called a cab and was told the wait would be 20-25 minutes. A cab eventually arrived, I asked the driver if it was in the name of Brewer, no it wasn't, so we waited, waited and waited some more.

I called back and was told a driver was on the way, he would be 10 minutes as some kind soul had stolen the cab we should have had!

We waited and waited some more in the freezing cold air. Again I rang and asked where the cab driver was....he had gone home!!!

Another one was on the way, the lady on the phone couldn't apologise enough, Rich and I had been waiting for over an hour. Eventually he turned up and again he apologised to us for the mess.

Great service, even if it was an hour late!!