Peter’s Hospital Diary

Its another really sunny morning again here, the sun is shining on St Paul’s Cathedral and reflecting off the white stone; it looks really beautiful. Yesterday afternoon passed pleasantly. I went and sat out on the ward, sitting in the sunlight, reading a book, and ‘borrowing’ a wireless broadband connection. It was quite useful as […]

It is a lovely sunny morning here in London: Yesterday afternoon was eventful. The non-medical highlights were a visit by the aromatherapist who gave me a lovely foot massage, and another visit by Simon for a natter! The medical highlight was a blood transfusion! Dealing with the blood transfusion; the blood test results from the […]

The transplant took place as planned yesterday afternoon. After all the build up, the event itself is a bit of an anti-climax – just a bag of cells that are infused into my veins via the Hickman line. However in a way it is my life contained in that bag! Scary thought! After the transplant […]

Today started badly! Although the pneumatic drills and trucks were silent, and I had a good nights sleep (aided by a half bottle of wine that last night’s visitor, Melinda brought in!) I was unpleasantly surprised to discover that 0845 and all external access from my phone has been blocked. At the moment I am […]

And not only wet, this morning the view across to The City is shrouded in mist making the NatWest tower look very ghostly. However, first some good news – the blog has moved to a more powerful server, (thank you Mark) so the response times should be a bit faster, and the reliability a bit […]

Nearly a week passed already! Now 2 days to the transplant… The morning so far has been typical, observations at 7, breakfast at 8:30 – but without a knife and fork, so by the time they arrived the beans were nicely congealed! After that came the drugs round with my favourite (not) – an anti-fungal […]

Well, not really! It is a grey misty morning here in London, as I look out of the room window, past the unglamorous Guy’s Tower (just hiding the famous Gherkin Building) over Southwark Cathedral and towards The City and St Paul’s Cathedral. The night was punctuated by the usual observations, although the 6 o’clock set […]

A good night’s sleep in the new room – well as good as you can get with the 4 hourly observations (I wonder what happens if anything occurs in the 3 hours 55 minutes between…) However it was compounded this morning by having my weight checked at the 6 o’clock observation. I can just about […]

Well so much for saying that I was settled in my room! Just after the last post, we had a ward round and it was pointed out that the room next to mine (and the one I had last year when I had the second self donated transplant) had became free, and as it is […]

Well, the first few days are over – I’m now settled in the room, with one or two things accomplished. The TV, which was on a bracket 8 feet above floor level is now at comfortable viewing level, although the internal aerial gives uncertain reception! I have a spare Freeview box at home, so that […]