Peter’s Hospital Diary

A relatively early dose of rays today – at 2pm. Not a lot to report really, much the same as the other days, although I did try timing the doses (it helps pass the time!). I get a burst of 14 seconds, followed by a bit of whirring as the shutters in the machine change […]

It turned out to be quite a busy weekend! Saturday was the birthday party, thrown by an old school friend, Simon, whom I hadn’t seen since the day we finished ‘A’ levels and he went off to join the Merchant Navy! We didn’t get a lot of time to chat (lots of his family and […]

And that just about says it all really! I had the second dose of rays this evening – slightly delayed because the machine I was booked into had broken, so I had to wait for a slot on another one. However it all went smoothly, and was a little qicker than last night as there […]

Yes, it really is 40 weeks since the transplant – doesn’t time fly! However to return to the present I have just returned from the first dose of radiation – and not a lot to say about it really. The treatment itself is painless – there is no sensation that a high dose of gamma […]

As the title says, I am now in London, staying in our friend’s flat (thank you Marion!) just down from Tower Bridge. So far this morning I have been to the Day unit at Guys, with the radiotherapy at St Thomas’s starting later this afternoon. But to recap over the last few days… It has […]

And a wet, wet. wet day it is too! However this is just a quick update as I think that there is a hint of the GvHd appearing! The skin on my face is getting very dry and blotchy – just as it did last March/April, so we will see what happens! (This is about […]

And before anyone asks, yes it was an excellent evening, spent remembering “The Immortal Memory”! And I feel very well this morning! I did leave at midnight before I turned into a pumpkin! However just before I was due to leave for the ‘do’, I had a ‘phone call from Olivia (the Radiologist SPR) to […]

Oh – you guessed! Yes, back up to Guy’s again for another check up with the lovely Linny! Not much to report really. There is still some swelling round by tonsils, but I knew that anyway as my voice is still a bit odd, but the radiotherapy in 2 weeks should sort that out. Linny […]

And it was off to London again this morning, this time for the radiotherapy planning session! I’ll gloss over the difficulties of finding a car parking space near Winchester station at 10 o’clock in the morning – it only took an hour – but eventually I arrived up at St Thomas’s Department of Oncology and […]