Things about food I didn't know when I started cancer treatment

1) I can open a packet of three Reese's peanut butter cups, eat half of one and put the second half back in the packet.

2) I can leave the open packet of Reese's peanut butter cups on the table in full view of my seat on the sofa for, let's calculate, three weeks and two days and not eat them.

3) I can look at a pork pie and not want to eat it.

4) I  can open the last packet of cheese and onion crisps, eat two, then give it someone else.

5) I can have trapped wind so badly that I have to ask my husband to wind me. He does so willingly, but won't put me over his shoulder to do it. No wonder babies cry.

A ne'er seen before phenomenon

What is that?

No really, what is that?

I peer down to look closer but still can't quite believe what I am seeing. I find my specs (leaving wet footprints on the landing in the process), set them on my nose and try again.

Oh. My. God.

It is! It is! My tummy is not obscuring the view. My tummy has shrunk to the extent that I can actually see my pubic hair if I look down. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but it certainly is to me.

I've been trying to remember when I last saw them just by looking down and I'm pretty certain that it's never - my tummy was well rounded enough as a young teenager that when my pubes grew they were obscured already - so I've never actually viewed them from above, as it were. It's pubes a-gogo here at Villa DW.

So I am really quite happy today ;)