<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jane-homeaug14.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1912" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jane-homeaug14-225x300.jpg" alt="jane-home(aug14)" width="225" height="300" /></a>Jane left hospital yesterday (Saturday) lunchtime after having the last of her three drugs which made up her first chemo session. She has t be careful about side effects and infections so she must wash her hands after stroking Murphy, mustn't deal with the cat litter (that's a positive) and has to wear thick gloves when gardening.

One of the checks is taking her temperature on a regular basis so at bedtime she sticks the digital thermometer in her mouth and it registers 35.9. The booklet says that if it's below 36 degrees then she must contact the hospital. After some worrying moments Jane suggested that I take my temperature and it turns out I register 35.4 which means the thermometer isn't reading accurately - phew. We purchased another thermometer today but that was even more inaccurate.

Jane is feeling fine and can be seen here catching up with emails to all those who made comments on the web or have emailed her over the past week.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/potatoesaug14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1911" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/potatoesaug14-300x225.jpg" alt="potatoes(aug14)" width="300" height="225" /></a>And so to the garden. It felt wonderful to be out in the vegetable plot together and to dig up our home grown potatoes. The seed potatoes for these were picked up on a footpath along the edge of a field after a local farmer had sown his potatoes. These potatoes have cost us nothing and they look very good.

I'm eating some of these this evening...