A good few days since the last post! After the chilly trip home, I spent Saturday doing some of my coursework, and then out to “The Anvil” Theatre in Basingstoke for a Concert given by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – excellent. Sunday saw the conclusion of the coursework module, and that was submitted on Sunday evening – one more piece to do for this phase of the course!<\/p>\n
Yesterday saw me travelling up to London for another couple of days of ECP. The team were on good form after the Christmas break. All was pretty routine, although I seemed to bleed more than usual when the canula was removed – but nothing serious! At least the accommodation was a bit warmer this time – I was in a different flat, with a much larger room, quite pleasant but a bit spartan!<\/p>\n
After the ECP finished this morning I jumped on the staff bus – with my notes – for the trip over to Guy’s for the haemotolgy check-up. I was the last patient and met the new specialist Registrar – Dr Andy Retter. We had a quick debate about whether more blood samples were needed, and decided that as the ECP team had taken some the day before, it seemed a bit unnecessary, which was fine by me. While I was waiting, Dr Raj stopped by and we had a chat, and then it was in for the ‘main’ chat with Dr Retter. As we hadn’t met before, we had a long chat, but the bottom line was that there doesn’t appear to be any change, no lumps, and blood results unchanged from last time, so everything seems stable.<\/p>\n
I was delighted to see fellow transplant patient Jean (one of the original three!) and her husband, john. Jean looked really well, although she has had one of the many coldy\/’flu bugs floating round and had lost some weight. She said that Mark (the other one of the trio) had been in earlier – so I was sorry to have missed him.<\/p>\n
Finally I saw Rachel – the dietician – who I haven’t seen for a while. I did her ‘strength test’ – not quite as good a result as before, possibly as a result of the infection and losing a bit of muscle tone. However she was please to see that I had put on a bit of weight (still about 63Kg) and we had a long chat about diets and so on (and her MSc thesis) before leaving to catch the train home.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow morning I shall be up early to drive back to work – home again on Friday!<\/p>\n
But a good start – Onwards and Upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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