Friday… 08/08/08… Immunoglobulin – or not!
Aug 8th 2008PeterGetting My Life Back!
Our friend Marian came round for dinner last night so I was a tad tired when I set off for London this morning for my Immunoglobulin to mitigate the risk of catching chicken pox. However I arrived at the day unit only to be told that I wasn’t on the list! It appears that by the time I arrived at the clinic last week, the infected patient had gone, so the risk is considered so small that I didn’t need it! So I turned round and came home again!
Well, not immediately, I did call in for a chat with Tammy, the transplant scientist, who still has a few of my stem cells in her stem cell bank, and then on my way out of the hospital, I bumped into Dr Carr – the consultant who first treated me and supervised the first two self donated transplants.
I haven’t seen Robert for about 18 months – in fact the last chance encounter was when I was having the radiotherapy 21 months ago, so we had a chat – his comment being that “You don’t really want the Immunoglobulin if you don’t have to, its a bit painful – stick with the acyclovir” – acyclovir is an anti viral drug I am taking anyway to protect against chickenpox. Anyway, it was good to see him for a chat, and that, with the chat to Tammy, made the trip worthwhile!
The journey back was Ok, although I had to change at Winchester, where the police were out in force with a drug detecting dog. Marvellous to watch, and while I was there, detected about five people. Lucky I’m not on the cocaine mouthwash!
More ECP next week – onwards and upwards!
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Richard on 08 Aug 2008 at 5:40 pm #
Good news.
Perhaps the Police are trying to win back the 2006 award for Winchester as the best place to live, or perhaps it just seemed like it with the chemical stimulants around……..
Good news about the pox though, I just hope they are right and any aerosols were swept away before you arrived.
Richard
Peter on 08 Aug 2008 at 11:23 pm #
Two chances – they either did – or didn’t. (Now where is that cache of standby acyclovir…?)