I've had a brilliant last few weeks. I got out to my niece's christening - I missed the last one because I was too ill to go and I've felt bad about it ever since. Seeing so many family and friends in the one place is always great. So many of my cousins have children of their own now as well so it was all very civilised but it was so good to see them all. I didn't even feel terribly tired after it.
On top of that my best friend has been home from Sydney and it's given us a chance to really catch up. It's not that easy to communicate all the aspects of my treatment through the medium of Skype so sitting him down and explaining it all was very much needed. It was also just nice to sit and talk about all the usual nonsense we do. I miss the fecker greatly, as I've mentioned here before.
In between times I've kept myself busy by building a rather large lego set (~3100 pieces). It is the Super Star Destroyer from the Star Wars films. I already have the normal Star Destroyer (which somewhat ironically has more pieces) so this was the next logical step. It cost a lot but I don't have anything else to spend my money on so I thought 'why not'?
Here's the various stages of development.
Stages 1 & 2
Stages 3 & 4
Stages 5 - 7 Complete
It's 1.25 metres long and took me a week to build. The other Star Destroyer took far less time but this one was much more fiddly and I couldn't get comfortable when building it so did it in little stints. Being honest my concentration wasn't up to much either so doing it in little sections was the best way to go. I know it's really geeky but it is genuinely awesome.
I'm also in a really good mood because I'm getting some great visitors this week. Today my mate Olly was going to come through to see me before he moves to Amsterdam on Friday but he's had to reschedule to Thursday due to taking an unfortunate tumble in the park yesterday. I've also got my friend from Uni Yvonne and her wee family coming at the weekend, which I can't wait for.
In between times I've got a trip to see the Respiratory consultant, but that should just be a quick appointment to keep him abreast of progress towards transplant.
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