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 […]

And that is the question of the day!  Will I be allowed home for the weekend, to return as an outpatient on Monday? That will depend on the blood results, due later this morning, but meanwhile I thought I’d share a selfie taken last night… Not looking too bad though I say it myself! It […]

I was still in a bit of pain when I settled down, lots of gurgling but not much relief,  I had something to damp down stomach action and a bit more oromorph, which helped dull the pain, but of course did nothing to alleviate the underlying cause. But all went reasonably well (although very broken […]

I’m beginning to get impatient now – I want to start the treatment!  I had a visit from  junior member of the team today saying that they would probably start tomorrow – nothing today apart from more fluids. i haven’t felt too good today, stomach pains (‘gripes’) and a feeling of bloated ness or trapped […]

I must say that I went to sleep (and woke up) feeling  good.  I think the last few days have been frustrating, patching up the symptoms of the underlying problem without tackling that problem itself.  I know that there are good reasons for that (partly because the treatment plan isn’t clear cut) but now that […]

Well, what started as another  ordinary day turned out in quite an unexpected way! I woke earlier than normal with quite severe stomach pains, almost stomach cramp.  That was followed by a call from a nurse specialist from Southampton asking when I was going for my blood tests – we arranged 12ish. Katie called to […]

OK, my bad! What I thought was going to be a PET scan turned out to be a kidney function test! So I put myself on nil-by-mouth from 5 am for no reason and missed breakfast unnecessarily! So a simple test, a radioactive tagged substance is injected into the blood stream and then blood is […]

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 […]

First of all a very Happy Birthday to my Granddaughter – 12 today! Now for the NHS crisis! There has been a major shortage of PJ trousers over the weekend, plenty of tops, but no trousers! Fortunately a new supply has been found before this was leaked to the red top press and all is […]

It indeed sunny and I have found a way of uploading photos from my phone, so I will go and add some to previous posts! This the view from the sunny side of the ward this morning! I woke up early at 6, after a fairly restful night, for today’s steroids! Tumour definitely shrinking. A […]