Friday 13 July 2007 and Friday 13 July 2012

Friday July 13 2007 = THEN 

[This next piece was written like a diary entry from Big Brother so you must use the voice of the BB narrator to get the proper effect]

Day 9 in the stem cell transplant house. Brenda woke and discovered that the foot fairy had been in during the night and had given her a manicure with Chanel Rouge Noir nail varnish. I feel like crap but I have the best looking toes in the hospital.

8.45am brenda’s head is in a basin again, she is vomiting!

8.59 am The newest arrival in the stem cell transplant house is a nosebleed. Brenda is however, relieved as the bouts of explosive diarrhoea have stopped for the past two hours.

9.02am Most of Brenda is in bed! This week’s task in the stem cell transplant house is for Brenda to stop vomiting and to keep tablets in. So far Brenda is failing the task and she will have to survive on a ration of sips of water for the next week.

10.10am Brenda is vomiting again

4.00pm Brenda is vomiting again and the explosive diarrhoea has returned.

12 midnight – Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the stem cell transplant house – Brenda is vomiting and has diarrhoea again.

I know I was making a joke at the time, but it was a combination of hysteria and desperation for a change in my physical state. In the middle of it - it was not at all funny or pleasant, but you do what you do to get through it.

Friday 13 July 2012 = NOW

I am still in Germany. Cologne is fantastic and there is loads to do. If only I wasn't at meetings all day and evening. Still we are going to Bonn today so the change of scenery will be nice. 

Bonn is really beautiful. So full of greenery, it is a bit like Ireland. We drove along the motorway which runs alongside the River Rhine. 

I am really enjoying seeing another little corner of the world that I have not visited before. I will definitely [hopefully] come back.

Guten Nacht

B xx