Peter’s Hospital Diary

It was another trip up to Guy’s yesterday for the routine check-up, and it was just that – routine! Not quite as much blood taken as normal (only half an armful) and nothing unexpected in the results. Haemoglobin hovering around 11.5, creatanine still slightly up, but not much different from last time, similarly with liver function. Next check up in 4 weeks.

However we did discuss the condition of my mouth, and the feeling is that the GvHd is borderin g on the chronic phase, rather than the acute, which may be why it is taking so long to clear up. While chronic GvHd can be a serious condition (see John’s Blog for just how it can be) it is still mild, but needs keeping an eye on. Of couirse while GVHd is present it is an indication that my donor lymphocytes are still active, and while they are active, they are on their ‘search and destroy’ mission! Crack on lads!

While I was at Guy’s, I discovered that the lovely Linny (who lefyt 2 months ago had a baby boy last month. Congratulation! And congratulations to Clare (one of the nurses from Stanley Ward and the vday unit) who is expecting a baby next month!

I mentioned the PaytientCrime blog last time and how I wasn’t sure if a blog was the right format. I am in the process of setting up a Bulletin Board/Forum style site to see if that is any better. It is still in the early stages, migrating the data and posts across is quite time consuming, and in the process I discovered a bug in the theme for this blog – comments made in response to pages (those posts that appear top right) can’t be accessed. Not my mistake, but something I will try to fix.

I hope the new forum will be set up by the end of the weekend.

Looking out of the window, I see that we are getting the heavy rain that hit Yorkshire yesterday, it doesn’t look good for the BBQ we have planned tomorrow for Kt’s birthday.

Onwards and Upwards!