Peter’s Hospital Diary

Well strictly speaking, the oral surgery department. The good news is that saliva production is better than last year, so there has been some recovery of the salivary glands that were affected by the radiotherapy (over three years ago!) – whether or not there will be any further recovery is hard to say, but the […]

Well, not quite true because there is still a bit of residual sniffling, but I am certainly feeling a lot better than I was this time last week, and this cold has certainly cleared up a lot quicker than the last one – perhaps my immune system is getting stronger as my physical strength improves? […]

Another busy week again, because after the Easter Bank Holiday, it was catching up at work, and then rapidly into the weekend – and the third Hampshire Wedding Fair! Yes it is that time of the year again and once again Felicity organised the biggest Fair so far – with over 320 people through the […]

Happy Easter to everyone reading this – and as a symbol of both Easter and Spring, I took this photo early one morning from the bedroom window in my flat. It was a quiet week at work, after the ECP I went home then drove back up to the flat for a day in the […]

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) […]

Where did the week go?!! I was at work on Monday and Tuesday, but home again Tuesday evening for a quick trip up the Guy’s for another referral to sort out some minor skin GvHd problems. Now that the major snagettes seem to be under control, we are slowly picking off the minor ones – […]

I hope you all remembered to advance your clocks one hour this morning, heralding the start of British Summer Time, light evenings and (I hope) the promise of Summer! I had another module of my Postgraduate course last week, culminating in the usual exam, which I think went well. There is some coursework to complete, […]

Not only my Birthday, but also Richard’s (Happy Birthday Richard) and as I discovered this morning, also the Birthday of Alan Sugar – those of us of a certain age will remember Alan Michael Sugar Trading (Amstrad) amplifiers of our youth! Cheap and cheerful mid-fi! We really celebrated my Birthday at the weekend, but I […]

It has been a beautiful sunny weekend here, and today we had a large crowd for Mothering Sunday, and only now are we settling back down after our visitors have departed. The garden is bursting into life with this prunus in blossom. Apart from Mothering Sunday, I had an early Birthday, as I shall be […]

And very nice it was to come back to a nice warm flat! After a bit of prompting, the agency got hold of a heating engineer who came round to the flat today. He duly pulled the boiler apart, and did a few diagnostic tests before deciding that it was the flow sensor that was […]