Tuesday 28 April 2009
A Little Less Conversation
I'm not intending to have the blog as JUST a retrospetive diary of my treatment for Cancer.. A bit of levity, perhaps, politics, showbiz, whatever takes my fancy.
The Long and Winding Road
At last I can do a blog..!
I've just spent near 4 months cooped up in hospital in Nottingham more or less unable to do a blog, because most of the main blogsites are blocked at the base thanks to their filters.
Even political ones like Iain Dale's blog were barred, not due to some left leaning filter admin, but because it's hosted on this site.. it might, might link to 'PornAgraphic material'. (Their spelling, my emphasising)
The reason I was in there was because in October 2008 I was diagnosed with Lymphoma. It wasn't til the end of Oct, start of Nov that I was diagnosed with 'Diffuse B-cell Lymphoma', a version of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma, that I could start getting my chemo. I was then starting to think about setting up a blog to chart the treatment. That idea has gone by the wayside, as I really only logged a few weeks worth in mid Decembe. The rest of the time, I just couldn't bring myself to do the text file I would, so I hoped, use as blog material.
My initial stay in hospital started at Grantham General, on Nov 9th 2008 with a temp at 40.6C. They were so successful in bringing down my temperature that I was then covered by a bear-claw. This was a transparent lilo with a hot-air blower attached to the side that acted like a blanket.
I was there for just over a week, during which time I had a biopsy where they removed 3 lymph glands. As we didn't do lymph glands in biology at school, I asked the nurse for a look. Reminded me of Butterkist popcorn, with bits of red on them. I was then transferred to Lincoln Hospital.
I was there given a choice of treatment... Either the current gold standard treatment, with a cure and no reocurrence rate of 55%, or take part in a trial of a treatment for another version of cancer, but to see if it works on my variation. This hopefully had a success rate of 80%. The trial would be operating out of City Hospital, Nottingham, with trialists across the country from Edinburgh to Plymouth. I took the gamble and so far it's paid off. I could have the normal treatment from Grantham on an out-patients basis, or do the trial in situ at Nottingham.
After another week, I was transferred from Lincoln. Then after a week there, a bed came up in Nottingham. I was installed in Toghill Ward, in the Clinical Haematology Dept at City Hospital....
The dirt track to full health had just been upgraded to 'A' road..
I've just spent near 4 months cooped up in hospital in Nottingham more or less unable to do a blog, because most of the main blogsites are blocked at the base thanks to their filters.
Even political ones like Iain Dale's blog were barred, not due to some left leaning filter admin, but because it's hosted on this site.. it might, might link to 'PornAgraphic material'. (Their spelling, my emphasising)
The reason I was in there was because in October 2008 I was diagnosed with Lymphoma. It wasn't til the end of Oct, start of Nov that I was diagnosed with 'Diffuse B-cell Lymphoma', a version of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma, that I could start getting my chemo. I was then starting to think about setting up a blog to chart the treatment. That idea has gone by the wayside, as I really only logged a few weeks worth in mid Decembe. The rest of the time, I just couldn't bring myself to do the text file I would, so I hoped, use as blog material.
My initial stay in hospital started at Grantham General, on Nov 9th 2008 with a temp at 40.6C. They were so successful in bringing down my temperature that I was then covered by a bear-claw. This was a transparent lilo with a hot-air blower attached to the side that acted like a blanket.
I was there for just over a week, during which time I had a biopsy where they removed 3 lymph glands. As we didn't do lymph glands in biology at school, I asked the nurse for a look. Reminded me of Butterkist popcorn, with bits of red on them. I was then transferred to Lincoln Hospital.
I was there given a choice of treatment... Either the current gold standard treatment, with a cure and no reocurrence rate of 55%, or take part in a trial of a treatment for another version of cancer, but to see if it works on my variation. This hopefully had a success rate of 80%. The trial would be operating out of City Hospital, Nottingham, with trialists across the country from Edinburgh to Plymouth. I took the gamble and so far it's paid off. I could have the normal treatment from Grantham on an out-patients basis, or do the trial in situ at Nottingham.
After another week, I was transferred from Lincoln. Then after a week there, a bed came up in Nottingham. I was installed in Toghill Ward, in the Clinical Haematology Dept at City Hospital....
The dirt track to full health had just been upgraded to 'A' road..
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