{"id":239,"date":"2007-05-03T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2007-05-03T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T16:49:47","slug":"thursday-guys-geek-stuff-and-more-olivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/getting-my-life-back\/thursday-guys-geek-stuff-and-more-olivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8230; Guy&#8217;s, geek stuff, and more Olivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/Olivia_peter_t.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and Peter\" align='left'\/>Check up time again, so it was off to Guy&#8217;s this morning, arriving bright and early just as the clinic was opening.  In fact I was number 3 for the blood queue, and then it was a wait to be seen.  In fact the examination was quite quick &#8211; confirmation that the sore mouth (which seems to be getting worse again) is GvHd, and that &#8216;It will get better eventually&#8217; and confirmation that my blood counts are better &#8211; Haemaglobin now 12.3, which is at the bottom end of normal range.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/olivia_boots_t.jpg\" alt=\"Boots\" align='right'\/>I came away with a prescription for more stuff for the mouth ulcers and an appointment for 2 weeks, when more blood will be taken for another chimerism test (to make sure my immune system iisn&#8217;t reverting back to my original).  It has been a medical week, as yesterday I had the first of my immunisations &#8211; pneumococcus, and Diptheria and Polio.  The last one will need another two boosters at one month intervals.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures of Olivia are on the gallery (with some others!).  The top one also features one of the delicious scandishhake food supplements (no &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t feeding it to her!) while the middle one shows her wearing some very stylish Ug boots &#8211; brought back from Australia by friend Marian!  The bottom one was taken today after she eventually settled &#8211; she had some immunizations this morning, but not being used to being used as a pin cushion, found the whole business rather unpleasant.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/olivia_snooze_t.jpg\" alt=\"Snooze\" align='left'\/><\/p>\n<p>Now a bit of geek stuff.  Those who are interested in these things may recall that the blog and website are all running on a Linux based system (sitting at my feet as I type).  The actual distribution is Red Hat 9 &#8211; a fine system in its day, but I have been running it for about 3 years (originally downloaded as a self teaching project) and it was 18 months old then.  Things move quickly in the Linux world, and although I am a great believer in the maxim &#8220;If it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it&#8221; support for this distribution ended in February, so I think it is probably time to upgrade.  I have been tinkering with the latest stable version of this particular Linux distribution  &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/\">Fedora<\/a> Core 6 &#8211; or FC6 as it is colloquially known.  FC6 is derived from the Red Hat products but it is a separate project in its own right.  Red Hat now concentrate on commercial implementations of Linux in its enterprise versions.<\/p>\n<p>Although FC6 is a little different from RH9, I am now reasonably confident abouit upgrading.  However, as with all upgrades, I will be taking a complete back-up of the hard drive (effectively cloning it) so that if it all goes wrong, I can easily restore things.  The backup and upgrade will take a while, so the blog may be unavailable for a few hours at various times &#8211; probably this weekend.  I will put up a page saying what is happening while I am doing it.<\/p>\n<p>So that is it for the moment&#8230;  Onwards and Upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check up time again, so it was off to Guy&#8217;s this morning, arriving bright and early just as the clinic was opening. In fact I was number 3 for the blood queue, and then it was a wait to be seen. 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