I love being loved, its the best feeling in the world.
I love those that love me and I hope that that is not just a coincidence.
I love the British seasons and the nature of those seasons.
I love the silly, trivial things in life that move me to tears.
I am moved to tears nearly every day and I love it… although it upsets Janet if she is not…[Read more]

Thank you one and all.

I felt rather shocked to tell the truth Tom… Janet was delighted and I tried to respond but shock was the major initial feeling. To be perfectly honest I also felt slightly guilty after recent events… but I know that they are not of my making and my results will not change them, however much I would like them to.:-(…[Read more]

I have just read this thread and I can't contribute for crying… I'm scared Janet will catch me and not believe the reason…

I'll be back.

Dai.

[b]'Glad you have found something that works and more importantly it doesnt make you stupid and want to sleep.'[/b]

I know what you mean Min… but this is Dex we are talking about here… If I could swap the effects of Dex to 'Stupid and Sleepy' I'd do it in an instant! 🙂

[b]'With all the energy its going to give you you can come and…[Read more]

Best wishes for you treatment Bridget – I hope it effect is both immediate and permanent. 😎 🙂

Dai.

Hi Debs,

I retract my earlier claim about having exactly the same problems as you. I certainly have bad PN… which has definitely got worse since I started Velcade, especially in my hands. My hands caused me the most distress as I am a guitarist and playing the guitar for pleasure and for songwriting… with its commercial aspects but……[Read more]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwrndrobllllantisiliogogogoch. 🙂

Leaving Och for the next competitor. 😎

Dai.

My Dear Min,

My thoughts will be with you and yours this day… I hope you all find strength enough to help you through the formal farewells… and afterwards I hope that you all find access to Peter in your own special ways.

With much love,

Dai.

I am ensconced in Fishguard, looking out of a picture window 10' by 6'… and framed in the window, is a photo-perfect combination of landscape and seascape. Bottom right I can see the old harbour of Lower Town where they filmed Dylan Thomas's 'Under Mlkwood' in 1972, with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns and Victor…[Read more]

Gill's starting word was Friendship – leaving the last three letters HIP – from that she made HAPPINESS – leaving ESS. I think that the rigid rule is that you have to use the last three letters of the last word but you can use them in any order to make your word.

So:
Friendship
Happiness
Existentialism

………ism up for grabs.

Dai.

I think we were left with: E S S

So, I'll raise that to EXISTENTIALISM 🙂

Leaving the next to play with: I S M

Dai.

If you went to the pictures on a Saturday morning and paid to get in then you had pocket money – I had mine the same way, only our picture show was on a Friday night with a 7 O'Clock showing… so we had a good late night and the whole weekend to follow. We called threepence a Threepenny Bit as well.:-)

Dai.]

BTW – those Flash Gordon…[Read more]

Hi Min,

Hopefully now that they have identified the problem they can find the appropriate anti-biotics and get Peter back to some kind of 'normal'… whatever that is. I can empathise with the high temperatures, I've suffered from my fair share and I know how uncomfortable they can be.

The loo-dash with IV stand was one of the events in my…[Read more]

My relapse in the spring coincided with a tumour on my sternum which was growing rapidly – I was fortunate that it was due to Myeloma and was totally eradicated by my first cycle of Velcade.

I wish Stephen every success in his treatments for his 'quite a few other bits of plasmasytomas' and I hope that after they have been eradicated and/or…[Read more]

Jumble Sales. I still love them today… despite Janet saying she thought I would avoid them like the plague given their significance to my childhood… but I didn't know any different.

The significance? I was the third of seven children (an eight appeared in my mother's second marriage). I can remember three or four of us having to stand in…[Read more]

Sixpence was also a tanner in West Wales. I had a shilling pocket money between the ages of 10 to 12. It cost ninepence – 9d to get into the cinema with threepence – 3d left for sweets. Threepence would purchase a 4 oz. bag of mixed sweets… I normally settled for mix of toffees and pineapple chunks… not many of each in a quarter bag but…[Read more]

Hi Debs,

I have exactly the same symptoms, with exactly the same effect as you and it drives me to distraction.

I don't bother with the Oramorph because as good as it is for general pain it just doesn't work on nerve pain. I'm afraid that I have no other suggestions (i bought a Tens Machine but had to stop using it after one session after…[Read more]

Hi All,

Yes, they kept me in… after being told to come in I had a quick shower and my temperature went up to 38.0 by the time the nurse took my temperature it was 39.0 – examined by a Doctor who admitted me.

The Doctor came to see me in the room and said that my Neutrofils were fine, as were my white cells, so he wasn't inclined to give…[Read more]

Kitchens? No… but we had a new boiler the other week and the disruption was irritating (it took 12 hours over one go because the plumbers, very good plumbers, didn't want the disruption to continue into a second day.) That's what I call service.

Its good to see you back on the site and doing your rounds Tom… our very own Doctor…[Read more]