{"id":78,"date":"2006-04-14T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-04-14T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:53:08","slug":"friday-t85-and-c4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/post-hospital\/friday-t85-and-c4\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8230;  T+85 (and C+4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another check up yesterday &#8211; and I needed it!  The palms of my hands were a livid purple yesterday morning, prompting the response from Linny (consultant) &#8220;Yes, that&#8217;s definitely GvHd!&#8221;  She then went on to prescribe another small pharmacy including <strong>large<\/strong> tubes of the topical steroids, some oral steroids, and some Piriton (an anti-histamine, familiar to anyone who suffers from hay fever!) for me to take home.<\/p>\n<p>I then went to have a lung function test.  This is to check that I haven&#8217;t sustained any lung damage as a result of the treatment, but one of the tests showed a 20% decrease in lung function, probably a temporary effect because of the GvHd, but we will repeat the test in a couple of weeks just to make sure.  Meanwhile I have my next PET scan (the 14th!) booked for next Tuesday, the 18th.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit to late to take the oral steroids when I got home as they should be taken first thing in the morning, but it certainly wasn&#8217;t too late to plaster on the creams!  I went to bed early, and took one of the anti-histaminers.  Well, it does say that they may cause drowsiness, but I had what must be the best night&#8217;s sleep since I came out of hospital!  No itching and out like a light!  Wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>Enough of the medical stuff &#8211; &#8220;What about the conservatory?&#8221; I hear you say!  It is now finished.  Simon (the builder) has just completed the last bit of cleaning and sealing, and I have just finished wiring in the sockets.  (No anti-histamines before doing that!)  The floor still needs to be tiled, but we want the concrete slab to thoroughly dry out before doing that &#8211; about 6 weeks. (Which might just be long enough to decide on which tiles to have!)<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; in all its glory&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/finished.jpg\" alt=\"The finished conservatory\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another check up yesterday &#8211; and I needed it! The palms of my hands were a livid purple yesterday morning, prompting the response from Linny (consultant) &#8220;Yes, that&#8217;s definitely GvHd!&#8221; She then went on to prescribe another small pharmacy including large tubes of the topical steroids, some oral steroids, and some Piriton (an anti-histamine, familiar [&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-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}