Tuesday… ECP second day
Apr 7th 2009PeterGetting My Life Back!
I’m sitting up here on the 12th floor of Lambeth wing at St Thomas’s looking down over Westminster Bridge – connected via the mobile phone network.
The ECP is proceeding uneventfully – yesterday’s session was quite quick as I had a large kit
(this takes more blood per cycle, but only three cycles for separation) but today I am on a small kit – takes six lots of blood, but only 125ml at a time, so it is a bit slower.
Westminster Bridge has just been re-opened, it was closed last night because of a demonstration in Parliament Square, and it was very noisy – lots of police cars with sirens going to add to the regular cacophony of the ambulances arriving at A&E! Who thought hospitals were places to rest?!! Although to be fair, I was in the hostel bordering the road, rather than on the wards which do have better sound insulation – I can’t hear the outside world from here.
But the ECP really has made a positive improvement to the effects of the GvHd so I am very grateful to the team.
After yesterday’s session I popped down to the PET Centre see Margaret (The Clinical Manager) about some additional uses for some of the (many!) scans I have had over the years. Great to catch up on news and the latest plans for the Centre. Funny to think that when I had my first one, PET scanning was in its infancy (no-one knew if it would be beneficial in my case). That was less than ten years ago, and now it is recognised as a valuable diagnostic tool. I am quite pleased to have been part a small of the process
Anyway, I see cycle 5 has just stated, so about another 90 minutes to go.
Onwards and upwards!