{"id":111,"date":"2006-06-29T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2006-06-29T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:37:54","slug":"thursday-t23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/post-hospital\/thursday-t23\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8230; t+23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed a long way to go for a 20 minute consultation, but then its always a pleasure to see Linny!  Progress seems to be continuing, and the creatinin level from my last visit was 123, still slightly above the upper &#8216;normal&#8217; limit, but much lower than it has been!  The next check up is in 4 weeks, which will roughly coincide with the next PET scan.  There was a bit of tooth sucking when I discussed getting dive fit again, but the suggestion that I might go back to work in August passed without (too much) comment!<\/p>\n<p>The next check up will include some additional blood tests &#8211; one for chimerism, to test the ratio of donor cells to mine (it was 100% last time, so I&#8217;m not quite sure why that is being re-done &#8211; I must ask) and a CD4 cell count.  CD4 cells are a particular type of lymphocyte characterised by a type of protein on their suface, and have an important role to play in fighting infections.  There is more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpa.org.uk\/infections\/topics_az\/hiv_and_sti\/hiv\/epidemiology\/cd4.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I got back home failrly early to find that the conservatory is now tiled and grouted!<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/conservatory.jpg\" alt=\"Conservatory\" ALIGN='LEFT'\/>  I am very pleased with the final result, there is some furniture on order, but that won&#8217;t arrive until August.<\/p>\n<p>The hot weather is back again today, the tomatoes and cucumbers were wilting a bit, but they perked up with some water, and the lemon tree (bush) looks as if it is having another growth spurt.  Perhaps it objects to being called a bush!<\/p>\n<p>So lets hope the weather holds up for the weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed a long way to go for a 20 minute consultation, but then its always a pleasure to see Linny! Progress seems to be continuing, and the creatinin level from my last visit was 123, still slightly above the upper &#8216;normal&#8217; limit, but much lower than it has been! The next check up is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}