Hi fellow downhills. Well what can I say. I had my consultation yesterday and my journey on the great slalom ended up off piste. He asked me how I felt and you know something is not right when despite their attempt at humour is masking something. To cut a long story short Brian has come …
Tag Archives: chemo
Lockdown
Hi everyone. I hope you are obeying government guidelines regarding self isolation. How am I, probably the same as everyone else bored. I may or may not previously mentioned my MRI was supposed to have been carried out on 3th April but as my wife and daughter had a cough I cancelled it to be …
Latest news
Hi fellow downhillers. I hope you are all keeping safe and isolating. If you are all like me you must be totally bored not being able to see family and friends. I can only watch so much TV without getting bored. It’s bad enough we are the people who are classed as vulnerable and we …
Treatment during this crisis
Good afternoon fellow downhillers, apologies for time between postings. So where am I? Well I had my bloods carried out on Monday and my nurse spotted me in the clinic and said have your bloods done and go straight home, however in these turbulent times we needed food shopping. The theatres and concert venues are …
Continued chemo
Good day everyone. I had my bloods taken Monday (I know so unusual having that done). Yesterday I met my nurse who checked my latest platelets readings. It was exactly the same 153, as my previous readings the week before so I was able to recommence my chemo treatment last night. I am on reduced …
February
Hi fellow downhillers, hope you are all well. I have had a cough for past couple of days but apart from that have felt ok, so fingers crossed it stays like that. I have a hospital appointment on either Monday or Tuesday (my choice nurse has told me) for my bloods, then have a meeting …
Update
Morning/afternoon/evening depending on what time you are reading this my fellow downhillers. I had my hospital appointment yesterday for a catch up to see how I was feeling with my nurse and she said would I like to know the results of my last MRI scan (I know it is that scary time), well she …
Happy festive greetings
I hope everyone had a fantastic christmas with lots of rest and not to much trauma in between. Apologies for not writing earlier it’s been manic with blood tests (in fact at hospital now to have bloods taken), more bruising I bet. We had a fantastic time in York cold but amazing 5 Christmas markets. …
Ongoing saga
Hi people. Had my bloods taken on thursday just gone, guess what? Yep they had dropped again, I am now reading 37 on my platelets, so have another vampire day tomorrow at 9 am UK time. The doctor has said there is nothing to worry about at the moment,(easy for him to say he has …
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Well Oxford is back on after having my bloods taken yesterday to check my platelets after they had dropped from 100 which is the normal to 77 last Thursday, then a subsequent blood test showed a further decrease to 43, luckily a further test revealed they had stabilized at 43, otherwise if they had dropped …
Brain Man 