Another grey day today in London, St Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looks quite grubby without the sun shining on it!<\/p>\n
A reasonable start to the day. The kidney pain seems to have gone as abruptly as it arrived. It might have been a reaction to the GCSF, or a mineral imbalance. I have started taking potassium tablets, and last night I had a magnesium infusion. That lasted 4 hours, and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help the sleeplessness! I may have an utrasound scan of my kidneys just to check they are OK.<\/p>\n
This morning followed the usual pattern, although Obs were a bit later. I felt a bit queasy this morning, not helped by breakfast which was worse than usual; so having rejected that in favour of a banana and a fortified milk drink, I treated myself to a lie-in! In fact I was still in bed when the ward round appeared.<\/p>\n
Now for the really good news. Progress has been very good, and my neutrophil and whie blood cell count has started picking up. If this trend continues, I might be out of isolation and possibly on my wasy home by Friday! What I mustn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do is get my hopes up, just in case this is a false dawn, and of course it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the end of the process, but the start of the next phase, which is equally critical, but at least I will be an outpatient, with bi-weekly checks. That won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be too bad as one of those will be at Southampton, so I will only be coming up to London once a week. The only downside is that I might have to take Itraconazole syrup again… (shudders involuntarily)<\/p>\n
My parents came down yesterday for the afternoon so that passed quickly. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any Cyclosporin as the blood analysis hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come back from the lab. Over the next couple of days I will be switching to oral Cyclosporin in preparation for discharge!<\/p>\n
I will have mixed feelings about leaving. Of course it will be good to be home, decent food, uninterrupted sleep etc, but I shall miss the wonderful staff here, who have looked after me, and of course all of you who have visited and helped the time pass so quickly.<\/p>\n
**STOP PRESS**<\/strong> – Neutrophil count came back at 2.7 and I am out of isolation!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another grey day today in London, St Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looks quite grubby without the sun shining on it! A reasonable start to the day. The kidney pain seems to have gone as abruptly as it arrived. It might have been a reaction to the GCSF, or a mineral imbalance. I have started taking potassium tablets, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-stay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}