Peter’s Hospital Diary

…another vist to Guy’s! This time the main purpose was for a follow up to the oral clinic, but before that I popped into the haematolgy department to discuss the DVT issue. No much to report there except that the recommendation would be to stay on the injections of heparin (moving to a lower dose […]

A mixed sort of day news wise! I didn’t mention it at the time but about 8 days as I was sitting at my desk at home, I noticed a pain in my calf, just behind my knee. I didn’t think much about it and put it down to sitting with my leg crossed over […]

PET scan! I was somewhat surprised to get a text message in a meeting yesterday to say that St Thomas’s had phoned to see if I was available for a PET scan today at 1:40pm. I knew that one had been ordered (as I said in the post after the last visit) but I was […]

Just a quick post to mark the end of the school holidays for youngest daughter, Rachael, who has an important day today. No only she is 17, and her shiny new driving licence comes into force, but she starts at 6th form college in Winchester after achieving a spectacular set of GCSE results (including an […]

Well, up to Guy’s really, and again pretty routine, bloods followed by a chat with a consultant. My weight is up a couple of pounds since last time, haemoglobin a fraction under 12 (so that is up) and creatinin (kidney function) about the same. Other blood counts were all good so things are improving slowly […]

It is lovely sunny day here, but still that edge to the air heralding autumn! Time to start thinking about bringing in the bourgainvillea and the lemon tree – which is looking much healthier now than it was earlier in the year. There isn’t much to report for the last week. My mouth has responded […]

It was a lovely sunny weekend, not without its events, but I can’t help noticing that there is that little edge to the air that heralds the arrival of autumn. Still, there is always the chance of an Indian Summer, and a long autumn is not an unpleasant prospect – evocative of bonfires of leaves, […]

Those of you that read the comments regularly will know that there are little subtexts going on, and a couple of weeks ago Gillian (a fellow campaigner for broadband) mentined riding on bananas, which prompted comments from Richard (another campaigner) asking for photos! Gillian has obliged, although she failed to send one of herself! Thank […]

A few weeks ago I said that I was wondering about renaming the blog – it certainlty seems as if it should be renamed “Olivia’s blog” as she features so much – and she is so cute! 🙂 My parents were down for a visit this weekend, the first time for a few weeks, and […]

And here we are again, apologies for the delay in writing this up, I’m not sure where the week has gone! We had another family gathering last weekend, organised by Vicki, to the Bristol Balloon Fiesta. This was in memory of Felicity’s father who took the children there some 10 years ago. We started off […]