Peter’s Hospital Diary

I didn’t stay up for the US election (not something I had a stake in) but the predicted landslide happened, so we will see what the next few months brings!

On the domestic front. tme seems to be flying by at the moment – with quite a lot happening. Socially we had a lovely evening on Saturday – thank you Tim and Ingrid, although since then we seem to have caught some cold (possibly from Vicki, who has been suffering along with Olivia and Tom (although if course in my case it will be man ‘flu – another reason for not staying up!). I also spent some hours up in the attic fixing an overflow pipe, which triggered a few aches and pains working in the confined space!

Things on the employment front looked up at the end of last week, with an e mail on Friday saying that a prospective client would like to interview me on Monday. That seemed to go reasonably well, aklthough I haven’t heard anything since. However the big event was the trip to Guy’s yesterday for the check-up and the results of the PET scan – which was clear! Big sigh of relief, although I was telling myself that if it hadn’t been, I would have heard by now!

The cold/’flu was noted with concern, so I had the by now familiar NPA and an anti-biotic prescription. It also seems that my immunoglobulin levels are still low. Immunoglobulin is made by B lymphocytes, and while I have plenty of those, they don’t seem to be working that efficiently. They should pick up over time, but in the meantime I am going to have a transfusion of them to ‘tide me over the winter’. The transfusion takes about 5 hours and the effects last about 10 weeks, so I am going up next Tuesday. I wasn’t too keen on the idea initially, but I think that is a psychological thing – I am keen to get on with new things and this is a reminder that I am still not quite recovered! On the other hand, liver function markers were all good and generally I am considered to be in good shape!

I also saw Rachel, the dietician, (briefly) who was pleased to note my slow weight gain!

So all in all – Onwards and Upwards!