Transplant -4: Ranty Saturday
Yesterday afternoon I was rejoined at my bedside by grey Eeyore. Quite rightly, Jane decided he was a little too unhygienic to be in here at first. He’s now been
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Transplant -5: Laminated notices
As I’ve just about exhausted the possibilities of taking photographs from my window, today we take a look inside my prison cell hospital room. At some of the many laminated
Continue readingTransplant -6: Horse Chestnut – all your conker are belong to us
Just to the left of the terrace is a beautiful horse chestnut tree. The leaves are on the turn and it has a bumper harvest of conkers ready to be
Continue readingTransplant -7
I was admitted a day early to hospital for my stem cell transplant, so it’s now transplant -7, or T -7. Today has been relatively straightforward – the usual whirl
Continue readingTick, tick, tick …
In another twelve days I’ll be checking into the haematology ward at Nottingham City Hospital. There will be another week of intensive chemotherapy, with my stem cell transplant scheduled for
Continue readingThe tale of Punxsutawney Neutrophil and his friend, Punxsutawney Stemcell
Monday 9th July Early start from Derby to arrive at Nottingham City Hospital for around 0800. The haematology day case unit opens at 0815 and I join the queue to
Continue readingEnd of treatment phase 1
The fitting of my Hickman line and 6th cycle of chemotherapy went well last week. I’m now rapidly approaching the end of the first phase of treatment. It’s been successful!
Continue readingA complete response
I had the results of my most recent (last week’s) PET/CT scan today. The good news – no, excellent news – is that it shows I’ve made a complete response
Continue readingThe C word
No, not that C word. And not ‘Chope’ either, though goodness knows his antics and those of his filibustering friend have made me furious over the last few days. The
Continue readingFarewell Maxi-CHOP. You won’t be missed!
My blood test results from Monday showed a significant improvement over the previous week (no longer neutropenic, but still a little anaemic), so cycle 5 happened on Wednesday. I felt
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