Peter’s Hospital Diary

The posts are a bit like buses – none for ages then two come along at once! Yesterday was a rather more prolonged visit that the bone density scan (although, like the bone scan, no blood samples!). There was a long wait, during which I swapped GvHd stories with another patient, and then in to […]

Where did the last week go? I suppose it is a sign that life is getting back to normal, and perhaps a little more mundane, that the frequency of the posts is decreasing slightly! On the health front, the only remarkable event was my trip to Guy’s for my bone density scan, which took all […]

Sorry about the blog downtime today, caused by a power cut while some work was being done on the power distribution cables down the road. I have been at work all day, otherwise I might have fired up the generator, but since we didn’t need power for anything else (the freezers stay cold enough for […]

I have frequently mentioned a fellow blogger John and his disabled rants blog – so it is with great sadness that I read the post from his mother, Margaret, saying that John passed away peacfully in his sleep yesterday. The full text is here. I never met John in person – in fact he found […]

…tooth! Cast you mind back Dear Reader, to a post I made last August I said that I had broken a tooth and had to have a bit of emergency treatment to smooth off the edges (it had been root filled on an earlier occasion). My dentist was reluctant to remove it, given my medical […]

Well I did say that last week would be busy – and it was, but very rewarding! The majority of the week was spent on a residential course for another module on my computing course. Not quite as intensive as the previous two (only 3 hours of exams at the end of the week) but […]

Or roughly translated – “The Long Term Transplant Effects Clinic” which as I surmised in a previous post, is a new clinic to look at the long term follow up of stem cell transplant patients. However, before turning up at the clinic, I met up with Simon (first time in about 18 months!) who happened […]

Sorry for the relatively large delay in posting – it has been a busy week! Regular readers may cast their mind back a year when Felicity organised a Wedding Fair at our local church. This was very successful, so a few months ago she was asked to organise another! This has taken up a lot […]

Skipping quickly past the famous Belgian reference (the other famous Belgian being Hercule Poirot) this was the scene that greeted us early yesterday morning. I know we weren’t alone in getting this snow shower, but it is very rare and it has been several years since the garden looked like this. We were out most […]

At post 301, I did consider changing the name of the blog. It is something I have considered before, as the blog was originally designed to allow me to update my progress during my last stem cell transplant. That was over 2 years ago (!) but the blog continued to chart the ups (and downs!) […]