Tuesday
Jun 12th 2007PeterGetting My Life Back!
Not much to report on domestically – we did some work in the garden on Saturday and Sunday morning (I say we – mine was very light work! 0 and enjoyed it on Sunday afternoon when the sun shone! Olivia came over on Saturday (with Vicki!) but she was a bit tired and fractious so no photo opportunities. I have done a bit more re-arrangement of the gallery, starting to subdivide the Olivia Album into month by month sub-albums. I’m not sure if it is an improvement though, as it makes scanning all the thumbnails a bit time-consuming, so I may go back to the previous style (comments please!)
Just after I wrote the last post, I went to John’s Blog which rather put my woes about my mouth into perspective. John’s problems were mainly caused by Chronic GvHd (with one or two other complications) and is a reminder of just how debilitating it can be (warnings that the team at Guy’s did make). However I initially found John’s last post a little disquieting as John has always been a fighter, and at first I thought that he was giving up the fight! However on re-reading it, I realised that I had mis-interpreted the spirit of it, as it took me back to my dark couple of weeks in January, and my feelings then. With hindsight I can see the difference between ‘acceptance’ and ‘resignation’. It is a fine line, but I see acceptance as being accepting of things as they are, it does NOT imply giving up, while resignation (to me) implies giving up! So I know that while John may accept his situation, (and so will move forward) I know he won’t be giving up the fight! We are all behind you! (Behiiiiind you…. – sorry – it isn’t panto season yet!)
So crack on John – and apologies for (briefly) doubting you! 🙂
Meanwhile there has been some activity on PaytientCrime with two comments from a PatientLine employee. they were attached to one of the earlier posts, but I have moved them under my latest post. He/she makes some interesting points. On the subject of paytient crime, I’m not sure that a blog is the best format for it, a message board/forum might be better, so I will be experimenting with that when I get a moment; the problem will be migrating the data across.
I have finally received my appointment with the oral team at Guy’s! It popped through the door this morning – and is scheduled for 12 July! My mouth seems a bit better today, but I have been treating it gently. This has paid off as I enjoyed a bacon sarnie this morning!
I’m still undecided about re-naming the blog – ‘Peter’s Diary’ is probably my favourite contender at the moment!
Onwards and Upwards!
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Jonny5 on 12 Jun 2007 at 10:31 pm #
No need to applogise at all Peter, in fact i had the very same thoughts whilst writing it and it took me till the end to get the picture as in it is very much not resignation but in fact acceptence. You will have to read about the latest addition to the gvhd party on the blog, and this is one i wasn’t told about or even suspected. Ah Well the more the merrier they say.
See Ya!!