{"id":1642,"date":"2011-05-23T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:37:17","slug":"monday-not-blogging-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/getting-my-life-back\/monday-not-blogging-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday… not blogging much :("},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mountain\"align='left'Just realised (to my shame) that I haven’t posted here for a while, perhaps indicative that health things are going well! And they seem to be. I have had a number of minor checks to do with the symptoms of GvHd and the consensus seems to be that I am reaching an equilibrium with the new immune system. I also had a lung function check last week, which showed that my lung performance is pretty much as it was seven years ago, There is a slight deterioration, but mostly explained by the fact that I am seven years older. So that means diving is definitely OK!<\/p>\n

\"Mountain\"align='right'I also had a haematology check up (new consultant on the team, Dr MCann) which also went well. My bone marrow biopsy result showed no abnormalities, and the chimerism test showed that I am 99.7% donor – and the margin of error on the test is 0.5%! The opinion is that it is unlikely that the chimerism will slip back, and that possibility declines with the passage of time.<\/p>\n

\"Gorge\"align='left'My next check-up is in four months, and it is possible that by then the transplant unit will have moved to King’s College Hospital where a new transplant centre is being established, amalgamating the existing Guy’s and King’s facilities. I did post about this last year, as I was invited to participate in a patient consultation panel. Overall, it will probably be a ‘good thing’. The transplant ward at Guy’s was pretty old and the building is in poor condition (and I think earmarked for demolition) so a new facility, creating a centre of expertise will be good, once the start-up pains are overcome. From a personal point of view, it is not quite so good as it is a bit further to travel!<\/p>\n

\"Gorge\"align='right'My contract ended at the end of March, with little work in hand. However I have been out to Switzerland again. One of the highlights was a weekend at Loeche-les-Bains, visiting the thermal spa I went to at New Year. This time I stayed in a little village called Albinen, more details in another post. From there I did a little bit of walking up in the lower levels of the Alps (along well marked tracks climbing about 200 metres from a start point 1,400 metres ASL) including an interesting crossing on a suspension bridge over a deep gorge on the River Dala. I did this before the lung function test!<\/p>\n

I did go the the thermal baths at Loeche, and was rewarded with snow, which fortunately didn’t stick!<\/p>\n

Not much diving at the moment, although the seal on my drysuit has been changed, but I need to build up a bit more sheltered water experience before I start doing deeper ocean dives. <\/p>\n

There are a few other things going on at the moment (one of the reasons I haven’t blogged for a while, but details of those will have to wait. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So in general, Onwards and Upwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just realised (to my shame) that I haven’t posted here for a while, perhaps indicative that health things are going well! And they seem to be. I have had a number of minor checks to do with the symptoms of GvHd and the consensus seems to be that I am reaching an equilibrium with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-my-life-back","tag-haematology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","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=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}