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George has asked me to post a bit of info regarding the National Inter-Hospitals Belly Championships. He is delighted to be able to inform you that he has been chosen to represent St.George’s in the annual finals. In preparation for this task the lovely nurses have been giving George injections of growth hormones into his … Continue reading The National Inter-Hospitals Belly Championships

Obviously, the exciting news is that Phase 2 is over. Done. Completed. No more. Etc. Hurrah! The less exciting news, however, is that I need to get my neutrophils up to 0.5 before they'll let me out, which might happen next week, perhaps. "Half a neutrophil?" I hear you cry, that can't be hard. Well, … Continue reading Oh, the tedium…

I had the funniest ten minutes the other day... My very ginger friend Charlie was visiting, and we were discussing, erm, potassium and the Periodic Table - bear with me! It's because I've been getting potassium, which fizzes happily in water, and I find it terribly exciting that potassium has the chemical symbol K: imagine! … Continue reading Eloquence

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