Peter’s Hospital Diary

I was looking back at the archives for last year and again this week was pretty significant! It was this week a year ago that the good news arrived following the PET scan, and the decision was made to go with another Donor Lymphocyte Infusion, which took place on the February 1st. And here I […]

Just a brief post to congratulate Rachael, who passed her driving test on the first attempt this morning! O&U!

If any of you tried to look at the blog last night, you will have received an error message as the server was down for about 4 hours from 7pm.. In fact we had a power cut, just as we were about to go out for the evening. We do get brief interruptions to our […]

Firstly, a moment we have been waiting for – Olivia has now gained the confidence to take a few steps on her own! She took the first ones last week, but we went round this week and I got this photograph. She is best when she doesn’t realise what she is doing – when she […]

Not about me particularly – but more for those that know Simon (maybe I ought to start ‘Simon’s Blog’…) Two weeks ago I mentioned that he was having a problem common to chemo patients – shrinking veins – and was going to have a central line inserted. Well that was done yesterday (he tells me) […]

It has been a while since I posted something with the ‘More Treatment’ tag, but today saw me back at St Thomas’s at the St John’s Dermatology clinic (originally founded in 1868 – and the only postgraduate dermatology teaching facility in the country) to look at the remaining GvHd. Now I must say that in […]

Hard to believe, but today is the second most important anniversary of the week – it is 104 weeks since I had the transplant (the actual annual anniversary is on the 19th – but today it is a whole number of weeks) so it was fitting that I should have a check up today! It […]

…who is one year old today, and has the most important anniversary of the week! She had a Birthday Party at her tots group today, with a cake that Felicity made (a hedgehog cake – no, NOT take one fresh hedgehog… a hedgehog chocolate cake) and then this afternoon we had a small family celebration. […]

Not one perhaps to celebrate – except for the outcome, as it was a year ago today (but of course on Sunday) that I was an emergency admission to Southampton General for a week of “intensive maintenance”. (The full details are in the archive here.) However, that was last year, and things are a lot […]

It was two years ago this week (it was Saturday 7th January 2006) that I was admitted to Guy’s for the donor transplant! Hard to believe, but good to be still alive and kicking. That also means that it is the blog’s second anniversary too – the first post was made on Sunday the 8th […]