Wednesday
May 10th 2006PeterPost Hospital
Check up day again – well, a day earlier than normal as Linny is off to a conference tomorrow, so the clinic was held a day early in the day unit at Guy’s. It was good going back there, although one of the nurses (Rachel) remarked that she didn’t recognise me for a moment as she has never seen me with hair!
The consultation with Linny was pretty short – we didn’t even wait for the blood results! She started (like everyone else I saw today) by remarking how well I looked, before getting down to the nitty gritty. The radiotherapy has been postponed until after the PET scan (which is scheduled for 19th May) so George (the radiologist) can put away his ray gun! I also broached the subject of going back to work. This did cause a bit of sucking of teeth, with the end result that it was “too soon to say”, and that “it depended on the PET scan results”, but August wasn’t ruled out. For once I didn’t end up with a small pharmacy in a bag (although I didn’t escape scot free – I needed some Piriton, but as it is an over-the-counter medicine, I don’t count it!)
After the check up, I went off to St Thomas’s for the simulator session. I was a bit early so I called in to see my friends at “City Hospital”. They would like to film me having the PET scan, and are trying to schedule me into a live slot before the series ends at the end of May. Watch this space. (Good cup of tea too, thank you Nicky and Rachel!)
That filled in the time until the radiotherapy simulator session, another part of the planning process. However I was met with apologies as someone had been supposed to call me to tell me that as the radiotherapy had been postponed, the simulator session had been cancelled! Ah well, it was worth going to St Thomas’s to see friends in the PET centre, and City Hospital!
This evening I am going down to the dive club. It’s a bit too soon to get back into the water, but not too soon to start thinking about it! Must get the kit out and give it the annual check and service! (Onwards and upwards – or should that be downwards? 
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