Peter’s Hospital Diary

Hmm – I’ve just had a phone call from St Thomas’s asking me if I am free for a PET scan on Friday. Now I wasn’t expecting to have a PET scan for another 6 weeks or so, so this came came as a bit of a surprise. However I have just rung Linny, and […]

OK, it is probably time to ditch the Apollo 13 metaphor! Suffice it to say that I am now back home after my three night stay on Blundell Ward on the 14th floor of Guy’s Tower. Great views, but sadly no available wireless networks. So having arrived on Monday afternoon, and completed the usual forms […]

Just a brief post this morning. I will be going up to Guy’s (Blundell Ward) today at about 12:30 to get there for half past two. I will be going to theatre tomorrow morning, but I don’t expect to be out before Wednesday. I doubt that I will have reliable internet access over the next […]

I have just returned from my trip up to Guy’s and the visit to the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department. I am delighted that my ear, nose and throat all look healthy (ever had a camera stuck up a nostril? – an ‘interesting’ experience…) and so no complications there. The only slight abnormality is […]

I have just heard from Guy’s (thank you Rob) with the results from last Thursday’s fine needle aspiration of the lump on my neck. It did initially look a bit suspicious, but it appears that the lymph cells are T cells and not the B cells that are characteristic of my type of lymphoma, indicating […]

I have just returned from London for another check up. Yes, I know it wasn’t supposed to be for another 2 weeks, but about 2 weeks ago I felt a bit under the weather and a bit ‘achy’ and last week I felt a bit of a lump on my neck. Now normally that wouldn’t […]

Just a couple – the first is is that it is 13 years ago today that we moved into this house. It was a lovely sunny day (like today) and we had lunch sitting on a blanket under a tree in the back garden while the removal van was unloaded and in between cleaning! I […]

The hours at work are slowly increasing in preparation for my full time return on September 4th! It is going to take a little adjustment to start getting to the office early! The week has been uneventful for me – mostly in office, but a trip up to London yesterday. Nothing to report on the […]

Yes it really is 30 weeks since the transplant – over 6 months! There is not a lot to report on the health front since last week. The GvHd seems to be calming down and there is some indication that my sense of taste and smell is returning – in that it is more sensitive, […]

And a much better result than last week – it must have been the beers and curry the night before! The particular lung function test that had poor results is one that measures the efficiency of gas transfer across the lung lining. Prior to my first transplant, that figure was about 9.4 (I’m not sure […]