Peter’s Hospital Diary

It has been a while since I did a countup from the transplant, but it really is 68 weeks since I received my donor stem cells, and of course 16 weeks since I was in Southampton recovering from the effects of the radio and chemo therapy! I am certainly feeling a lot better than I […]

The main server upgrade (phase1) has started – the blog is closed for comments at the moment and some facilities may not be available. OK – first bit done – improvements to cooling and the backup hard-drive installed – now starting to backup the system! Well, I got one working backup and the system has […]

Check up time again, so it was off to Guy’s this morning, arriving bright and early just as the clinic was opening. In fact I was number 3 for the blood queue, and then it was a wait to be seen. In fact the examination was quite quick – confirmation that the sore mouth (which […]

With May just around the corner, the recent good news etc, I thought it was about time for a new theme. Actually there are some practical reasons. Although I originally chose the last theme for the spring-like feel of the photo, the lambs are probably now cutlets, and I always found the ewe a bit […]

Well after 3 days at work (Wednesday was spent in London at a trade exhibition) I decided not to overdo things and not go in today – I did feel quite tired this morning, however it was good to go back! I do need to check with the team at Guy’s too, which I will […]

And that next step was going into work! Although things have moved on without me, there were a number of administration tasks that were building up – and just going in is an important psychological step. I have to say that I was overwhelmed by the welcome (and rather humbled to find out how many […]

It was a busy weekend! Just after I posted the last entry, I was visited by friend Adrian. Adrian (who has posted comments here) you may remember has a Caterham 7 and promised a while back to take me for a ‘Blat’ in it! Well he duly did so on Saturday – a great experience […]

Just a quick post to thank you for your kind comments following Thursday’s news, and to say that I have heard from fellow transplant patient, Mark. He posted his news in comment 5 on Thursday’s post, so please look at it! Keep it up Mark – and enjoy the sun (but don’t forget the sun […]

And it was off again at silly o’clock and a chilly start (3C when I got in the car to go to the station) for the trek up to Guy’s, this time uneventfully and I arrived just before 9:30 for my 9:45 appointment. Straight in for the bloods (only two test tubes this time) and […]

Oh dear, the food police appear to be active according to this report from the BBC website. I believe it was also covered in one of the daily papers. That is a great pity because I have just started fully enjoying bacon sandwiches again! This is for two reasons. The first is that my sense […]