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Last night I slept better than I have for a very long time... I must have dropped off some time not too far away from midnight, and didn't wake up once before 7:15am! What's more, when I woke up, it was a proper groggy wake-up, as though I'd been in a deep sleep, unlike every … Continue reading Not back in tomorrow

SallyNow you've met Sally, I can tell you about her highly-rated medical opinion... When I was first in ITU, it was a real struggle to speak, what with the mask, my massive breathing rate, having a feeding tube down my throat etc. Naturally I kept my words to a minimum, as I had to really … Continue reading Sally; ITU special foods; bath

I've just gone through my digital camera and only now downloaded lots of photos from over the past year. Naturally many of them are completely irrelevant to now, and certainly to having leukaemia, but it was lovely to see them so I thought I'd share a few!This one is from the White Knights Ball: if … Continue reading Pic spam!

It's official.

Looking at yesterday's post now, it seems a lot more positive than I remember the day being, to be honest... That may be due to the fact that I felt worse as the day continued: I was actually so shattered by my failure to sleep that by the evening that there was no way I … Continue reading Downs and ups

Remarkably, it was only this morning that I had my first bacon sandwich: all my other meals have been lovely and home-cooked and now I'm off steroids I'm not pining after extra food in between... Having not got much shut-eye again last night (though I did feel my body was getting well rested, even if … Continue reading Bacon: I’m just following instructions!

Taken on Wednesday (I think) while I was in hospital, here are a nice couple of bruises that have been taking their time to recover!I'm not sure how I got this whopper on my inside arm. It is fading at last.I think this was from the morning everything went wrong, and I collapsed in the … Continue reading Gore!

Good afternoon! You may be relieved to hear that I slept a lot more and better last night than I had done the night before, so am feeling much more refreshed and normal today. It wasn't a flawless night's sleep, unfortunately, but it was a night's sleep, and I do feel so much stronger for … Continue reading Feeling human…

I'm here, home, fed, watered and even connected to the internet... I'm also sleepy, so am going to have a lie-down, close my eyes and see what happens.:-)

Well, I started writing a blog post at 7.15 this morning, having slept for a couple of hours from midnight but then having been kept awake by serious pain in the legs... Various painkillers eased it to varying extents, but all in all it wasn't the way I'd hoped to spend my last night in! … Continue reading Long night…