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Apologies for the break in updates, things have been going a little mad in the Alex world. A brief summary, first my car was serviced and those nasty people at Renault wanted to remove one upper and one lower limb in exchange for replacing the brakes. Naturally I declined their generous offer and went in search of a better deal, and preferably one that would mean I could keep all 4 of my outer extremities.

As there is no "Compare the Meerkat" web site to compare the prices of garage services I was forced to use that old fashioned combination of Shank's Pony and of all things, a telephone (remember them?). Once this debacle had concluded I'm glad to report that I now have a car that I can safely stop, and that I still have both arms, and both legs. Phew!

The next catastrophe was that my mobile phone decided that it had had enough. The touch screen display, decided to become just a display, rendering the phone of course, pretty useless. Luckily it is still under warranty, but never-the-less it's still a lot of messing about to get it sorted, and a temporary alternative configured. There was also the matter of an important family birthday that needed my undivided attention, so I've not had any time to come on here and blog away. Also the loss of Internet access at the hospital has not helped, as this, along with my lack of a phone have meant I've only been able to access the Internet when I'm at home, so I've had to use the small window of time I have to sort out the more practical things in my life, so time for updates have been few and far between.

Still, forget all this nonsense, I hear you all saying, how is Vicki? Well, she's OK. Her 4th, and hopefully final chemotherapy session has now ended, and we're in the side effects time frame. Her blood counts are low, and her appetite remains suppressed, but otherwise she's not too bad. As ever, she's bored. Now she's through her eye drops ordeal, she's restarted her studies, with the in-house hospital schooling returning. Now is the time she's starting to focus on the next academic year.

As ever, her friends visiting are the highlight of the days. Last night Kieren came and played a football game on the PlayStation 3 with Vicki. Yes, I did a double take too when it happened, but this wasn't some kind of bizarre cheese induced dream, it really happened. My favourite moment was Kieren who having chosen to play as France questioned "why aren't they wearing berets? their costumes should have berets!" Enough said!