While my friend was visiting us our younger son became ill with what we first thought was a common flu. When we phoned a nurse he said that it sounds like hand foot & mouth disease, there's an epidemic around in Finland. It is a very common children's viral infection where you usually get blisters in your mouth and throat. That explained why he started crying every time he tried to eat! Other than that the disease luckily usually goes over quite fast, but it is very infectious. Our older kid got it on Wednesday. And my wife on Thursday. And I, who was told to be very careful with all kinds of infectious diseases, as with chemo I would have less resistance to infections, didn't get it.
Last weekend my wife and I jumped on a short trip to Riga in Latvia and left the kids home with grand-parents. The old town of Riga is pretty nice with a lot of good restaurants and cafes. We tried out a bit of the local cuisine. One evening we had an exciting dinner in Salve, a restaurant with real Latvian food. We also found some interesting and cheap self-service places where we had lunches, "Sefpavars Vilhelms" served a variety of pancakes and Pelmeni XL served the famous Russian pelmeni.The weather wasn't too good though. On Sunday we visited the Saint Peter's church which has a tower with a nice view. The only way up (and down) is with an elevator operated by an elevator chauffeur. There was a sign next to the door saying the elevator only runs every 10 minutes. When we got out on top of the tower it was so windy and rainy that people just wanted to get back down. The chauffeur showed no mercy and the elevator was back 10 long minutes later.
On Thursday I had the CT scan. Tomorrow morning I'm off to the hospital to hear the results of the scan and start a new round of chemotherapy.
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