Peter’s Hospital Diary

Yes! Made it home! It did take 4 1/2 hours for my ‘party bag’ to be delivered, which was frustrating, but at least I had ordered an evening meal so I didn’t go hungry, but I was getting a little impatient! But Katie and Chris collected me at 7pm and whisked me home where I […]

Yes, I was discharged yesterday, not without some delay though! The kidney function test completed at just after 2pm (results to follow) just as a friend, Mark, turned up to visit. (Long term readers of this blog will know Mark as a fellow blogmaster who first set up the blog for me in 2006 as […]

Big update deserving a post of its own! Just had a visit from my consultant, David Welch. Good news is that my blood chemistry is significantly improved with creatinine down to 140 (still above my baseline of 130 which itself is higher than the average) at the Ca is down to 2.73 (not sure of […]

Just after I had written up the blog for yesterday, my chauffeur driven wheelchair was summoned to to take me for an ultrasound scan. Once I had advised the radiologist to stop looking for my spleen (it was removed 19 years ago!) I asked if he cared to share an opinion, he confirmed that there […]

So it seems that my blog posts are like buses – nothing for ages, then two come along at once! So what, you might be asking, am I doing at Guys, on the Hedley-Atkins Ward in the evening of the second day of the New Year? Read on and I shall explain! You will recall […]

Well, four years since I last updated the blog – and it has actually been offline for a lot of that time. This has been for two main reasons – the first was that I made some major changes to the software which stopped the blog software from working properly, and as I said in […]

That I have neglected the blog for nearly twelve months :(. I suppose on one side it demonstrates how much I have moved on from the original reason for the blog, to keep me occupied and to chart my progress through long periods of hospital treatment and the subsequent trial, tribulations during the recovery phase. […]

I had almost forgotten the original purpose of the blog, with all the recent activity, but this month sees two important anniversaries. The first is six years since my bone marrow transplant (BMT) and the second is the fifth anniversary since my relapse and the long shot of the donor lymphocyte infusion that has kept […]

It has been a long time since I last posted on here, and I suppose now is as good a time to explain as any. It is a fact that couples that have been through some trauma are statistically more likely to separate after the event. The trauma either pulls people together, or exposes weaknesses […]

Yesterday saw me going up to Guy’s for my four monthly check-up at the late effects clinic for transplant patients. I was delighted to see Mark, who had his transplant at the same time as me (and looking very tanned!), Ian, another patient I have seen over the years, ans well as meeting one person […]