What are you like. You are supposed to be taking it easy, not head dives down the stairwell. It was a good job Steve was there and I am glad you are home and recovering… just take it slow, sit in the garden and get an escort up the stairs… here I was taking your silence for an enjoyable, carefreee time. Tut, tut… and I mean tut. 🙂 :-/…[Read more]

Fingers, toes and a thousand best wishes Min. Peter knows what's coming and, as you say, he has his aplomb and his courage and something to aim fro… something positive, something really, really good.

God bless and a following wind.:-)

Dai.

Thank you kindly Jo,

I don't want to hog the Off Topic section but you never know who you are going to 'speak' to, so unless someone sends me a private message asking me to desist I will post the occasional lyric or finished song. I would not take offence… 😉

Dai.

When we did our emergency flight from Wales we ended up in a friend of our in-laws' bungalow that they had just put up for rent due to a lack of sale. Two years later (yesterday in fact) we are still here, with carte blanch from the owners (who live in France) to do whatever we want to the house. Apart from a little decorating we have left it…[Read more]

The best of luck to you both Min, if anyone can do it you can.

I am forever amazed by the recovery from a doubtful position, my own included. I have just started my second cycle of Velcade and I hope for the best, especially as I look and 'V' side-effects and Dexness aside, I feel so well. Ok, I have my physical restrictions but they are both…[Read more]

Hi Carol,

In remission and riding horses is hardly likely to draw much sympathy:-) But I understand where you are coming from, there is always the fear that it might be 'more' than 'just' arthritis and wear and tear and that is totally understandable and for that you have both my sympathy and empathy.

Refuse complacency from your medics.…[Read more]

Hi Tina,

I recently wrote this as part of a response to another thread in the 'Off Topic' section. It regards Janet and her watching over me.

'I catch her, in quiet moments, with her eyes upon me, quietly drinking me in, assaying her thoughts… and I leave her be.

I am her here and now, she is my beautiful. In the days to come, through…[Read more]

Thank you Jo. 🙂

Primarily I am a folk singer/songwriter with 30 years experience of folk clubs and performing solo and in a range of folk/folk rock bands… plus 15 years playing in a Ceilidh Band and 7 years singing with a Shanty Band.

But when it comes to songwriting I write across the board… from jazz to hip-hop, pop to country rock…[Read more]

Miss, miss, me miss!

Vivid dreams of the highest order in Technicolour TM with all the bells and whistles.

The whole body super-twitch (usually when I am about to drop off) is a classic, I would love for someone to set me up in laboratory conditions with forty strategically placed cameras etc. to capture the moment in slow motion. I…[Read more]

Hi Min,

I wish Peter the very, very best with his treatment. It certainly does not sound very pleasant, having been through most of that at one stage or another but it is a plan… and hopefully a plan that will get him his shot at the SCT. I appreciate that the medics are warning Peter that he will feel very ill with this radical treatment…[Read more]

Thank you all.

Discipline! Good grief Bridget, what's that when its at home? 😀

I'm weaned off Dex for the moment (Cycle 2 starts on Monday) but even without its manic meanderings my mind is going ten to the bakers barmcakes at the moment and I jump from novel to songwriting and back again, several times a day. Funny thing is there is a…[Read more]

Thank you Ellen.

From what I understand the reservations have been based on overall efficacy, that seems to have been answered, so I do hope that a method with equal efficacy and superior management of side-effects will soon be the order of the day. (I am about to start Cycle 2 and my consultant did say that I might get subQ administration…[Read more]

Ah Min,

I have nothing to offer except love and support. If the doctor is questioning the results then there is always the hope that what Peter needs is something to stop the rise, be that Bendamustine or whatever.

My consultant has said that when the stepped programme of licensed drugs has run its course they will try previous courses that…[Read more]

Hi Alastair,

I cannot speak for other hospitals and centres as I have limited experience… but what an experience, in my case Nottingham.

The City Hospital complex has a purpose built Haematology Unit with an excellent Day Case Centre and two floors of specialist wards above the shop. It is part of a teaching hospital with direct links to…[Read more]