Author: George

Tonight (Friday, 6th January) is the enormous fundraising ball for the Order of Malta Volunteers, so many of my friends, and some of my family, and even a couple of people I don't know, will be converging on Grosvenor House for an evening of fun, jollity and hopefully lots of charity giving. It's always enormous … Continue reading White Knights Ball

The transplant consultant came in today (my consultant is away at the moment, so he was doing filling in for his patients), and explained that as I'm almost at the end of this phase of treatment, he reckons it would be best to wait until I get through it, and then we can sit down … Continue reading Phase 3

...I can fall back on the big things! For example, things have still been pretty grotty quite a lot of the time, as my back is still giving me grief (particularly in the morning and just before I go to bed) and I've thrown up again once or twice, as well as feeling very weary … Continue reading When the little things are nasty…

(To the tune of 'Knees up Mother Brown.')Needle in the spine,Needle in the spine,Intrathecal, intrathecal,Needle in the spine.

Well, on Day 15 I promised to expand on just why that day was so long, and at last I’ve got around to it. It started gently enough, with a trip down to chest x-ray (a weekly routine), though I did manage to forget my wallet, so ended up making another trip downstairs straight afterwards … Continue reading Whew… long and hard days

Have an awesome 2006!

Val Rapp, my maternal grandmother, better known as Granny, died on Wednesday evening. By the sound of it, it was probably a relief for her, as she didn't seem to be getting much from life and was in quite a lot of pain. Please remember her in your prayers/pagan equivalent. I'll never forget whenever she … Continue reading Supergranny

Today (Day 15, ie Wed 28 Dec) has been rather long. I shall explain in full when I am not having to dictate but basically it involved a lot of needles and a lot of drugs and some blood. Everything’s OK but lots of things happened to coincide so I’ve been plugged in almost all … Continue reading Fully wired!*

[Written before Christmas so the Queen was plagerising me and not the other way round!] I’ve always thought that charities are very important, but now I think their work is even more vital, and have been interested recently in what I term ‘charity journalism’, and the variable coverage of the charity sector in the media. … Continue reading Charidee

[Written before Christmas] Today (Thursday, Day 9) I got to explore the hospital slightly further because I was sent for an abdominal ultrasound scan to check for any other reasons for my liver enzyme over-activity. They didn’t find anything too abnormal. I’ve stopped the tablet chemo for a couple of days, as that could be … Continue reading Liver enzymes; plugged in all day; festivity