My fight with Mantle Cell Lymphoma, getting my life back, and a few other things!
Apr 10th 2006Post Hospital
Feeling a lot better today, although my palms are quite sore, as are the soles of my feet. I am still a bit itchy but it doesn’t seem quite as bad as it was. My face is still a bit sore (shaving was a little unpleasant!) but the swelling of my lips and eyelids has […]
Apr 8th 2006Post Hospital
Mixed day today – I woke up feeling pretty grim, the blisters and iching on my face had subsided a bit, although my face was still puffy, and the bright crimson effect and little blisters had spread to my legs – and I still itch everywhere else! I felt very thirsty too. However there were […]
Apr 7th 2006Post Hospital
Forget to mention that yesterday was 77 days post transplant – time flies! Feeling a bit better this morning – the topical steroids are working, although how much is being absorbed and dampening down the GvHd systemically remains unknown, and of course it doesn’t want to be dampened too much to inhibit the wanted Graft […]
Apr 6th 2006Post Hospital
Sorry I didn’t get to update this yesterday – I arrived home – slapped on some steroid cream and went to bed! So yesterday… Yet another interesting day starting with a visit to my old friends at the day unit in St Thomas’s – where all this started nearly 7 years ago! (May 1999 was […]
Apr 4th 2006Post Hospital
Suffering a bit at the moment – I am covered in what looks like a nettle rash, and major sniffles. I’m not sure if the sniffles are a cold, or anything to do with the rash, whch I hope is GvHd (The alternative would be an allergy to one of the anti-biotics I am taking). […]