Peter’s Hospital Diary

It is a glorious sunny day here, the conservatory has all its windows open, there is the gentle hum of lawn-mowers from the neighbours (I ought to test my strength and do ours) and the birds are singing! I get great pleasure watching the variety of birds in the garden, particularly on ‘weak’ days when […]

Whatever it is called (you decide and let me know) it has certainly provoked some interest from you all! I like the idea of registering one of the above names (which one?) and perhaps set up a blog using it. Comments please. In fact the more I look at the patientline web site, the more […]

A week or so ago I received a comment on my post “The Patientline Scam” and I remarked on it here in the main blog. It in turn prompted a ‘robust’ reply from fellow blogger John! Patientline’s charges have been under investigation by OfCom for a while now, and this morning there was a report […]

Although I did think that yesterday the title might be ‘Cold, cold cold’ as it was a very wet, dreary and chilly day. However this morning the sun is shining, the windows are open in the conservatory and apart from a stiff breeze, it is a lovely day. We had Olivia staying with us last […]

There have been one or two comments about the length of time since I last posted! It’s nice to be missed! I hope you all remembered to advance your clocks to British Summer Time (or Alpha time) on Sunday – and don’t the light evenings feel good and lift the spirits? Last week was quite […]

Certainly the weather forecast is not very good, and we have had some strong winds both this afternoon and last night – with more to come! I expect the blossom on this tree may be gone by morning! However, no power cuts (yet?) so we will see what the evening brings. However the main reason […]

As Richard has pointed out, it is a week since I last posted, but the major event was the trip to Guy’s yesterday. It was a chilly and misty morning when I set out at the early (for me) hour of 7am to catch the train to London. Inevitably we were slightly delayed (fog on […]

On a serious note, those of you that live in the south may have seen a news item on Wednesday about Keiton Knight. an 8 year old boy who died on 1st march from leukaemia after a 4 year fight. Keiton was waiting for a bone marrow transplant, but being of Afro-Caribbean descent, donors are […]

Really because there is not a lot happening on the health front at the moment! I keep thinking that there are signs of GvHd, but I can’t be certain! Certainly my sense of taste is changing slightly, but there is no sign of the thickening of skin that heralded GvHd last time – but it […]

Yes, I know that Spring doesn’t officially start until the equinox on 21 March (unless you are the Met Office, who start Spring weather records from today) but it has been a lovely sunny day here – in between rain showers – that it feels like April, so I am hunting down a Spring theme […]