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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

Hey everyone, this is Fred posting on behalf on George. He wants to wish you all a merry christmas and apologise for not posting for a while. He has written a whole bunch of stuff over the last week but hasn't got around to uploading it yet, hopefully it will appear soon! He came out … Continue reading Happy Christmas!

I don't have any chemotherapy, the ward is livelier than it is at the weekend, and now it seems to be becoming a good day to go to my favourite Italian restaurant in Balham, Ferrari's. My big bother [sic, with apologies to Harriet Mary Norton Chatterbox] Tom came too, as well as my dashing father … Continue reading I’m rather fond of Mondays

...seems to me to be nothing but a money-grabbing monster. The company has an exclusive contract with the NHS to provide TV, radio, telephone and internet to patients' rooms. However, the TV costs £3.50 a day (less if you're over 60 or in for more than 14 days, but if you're in for 70 days, … Continue reading Patientline…

I had about a billion lovely visitors today [this post written on Sunday] which was great. It probably would have been a bit much yesterday, as I was pretty sleepy and didn't have much energy, but apparently that was because my haemoglobin was low, and consequently I was given some blood. Thus today I was … Continue reading Visitors, Christmas presents and nurses

Number 1:One of George's beautiful female friends: "Adam and Katie, why are you wearing silly headgear, what with you, Adamski, sporting a fetching three-pointed pirate hat and you, Keeno Katie, showing off a delightfully retro bowler hat?"Adam 'Spuds' Shpludakowski or Katie 'Keeno' Keene: "We went ice-skating beforecoming to see George."George: "So the order of your … Continue reading Jokes of the week

We did it! Tom (Norton) and I managed to bust George for lunch yesterday (Monday) at Ferrari's - a great Italian Brasserie just north of Tooting Bec tube. Lovely! He is in good form - even better after a proper pizza! We really hope we can bust him again for Christmas Day and Boxing Day … Continue reading Break out!

...drinking proper coffee and watching my hair fall out in the shower.