BRILL I love a good belly laugh. Doesnt it make you feel good.
Thanks
Min

Gill,

I know how it is with a husband on treatment again.
Its all too easy to forget how it was, you dont mention what his treatment is apart from dex, and anti sickness. New medications that he is not used to will have new side effects. Peter was found to have bleeding haemoroids at the outset needed the darn camera up there to find out it…[Read more]

Hi Pamela
Im afraid I don't know either but I googles it and it would seam to be a 'splint' though obviously more complex, that sits inside the bone in the space that the bone marrow usually occupies.
It looks really interesting. sorry if that sounds sick.
Have a look at this link. I may be absolutely wrong on this and I know it not good to go…[Read more]

Stuart and Web Team

J[b]ust wanted you to know that the SPEED is back[/b]. thanks a lot guys. No clicking and waiting its click and go again.
Big well done.
Just one more little thing. there was a wealth of information on the old site from old posts. Any chance of an archive?????
MIn

Hi Michelle
Doesnt good news give your spirits such a lift?
Its wonderfull when we hear good news for a change, our good news is that peter is back on the velcade and his platelets went from 40 to 110 by missing one injection. Dont know yet about his light chains, but that fact alone gave me a lift.
Min

Gaye,
Peter and I travelled to Kenya about 15yrs ago. We stayed in a hotel I thought was Paradise, visited the local infant school, and was amazed at how pristine the children were turned out whilst living in such unimanginable filth. You should be very proud to have given her a start she would never have otherwise had.
I am sure she will make…[Read more]

Roz
My thoughts are with you at this very difficult time.
As difficult as it may be, do you have a hospice near to home? It could be so much better for both of you.I hope you and your daughter will find the strength to cope with the days to come and that Michael is pain free and comfortable.
Min

Bar stewards!
What a blow. Did you not tell him that as a tax payer you were now his boss! Or are hsbc one of those that did not get tax payers money to bale them out?
Dont get me going on that or I will blow a fuse.
Awful as it sounds, ask your Macmillan nurse if she can help you out here.
Then write to the financial ombudsman, your local…[Read more]

Moan away Bridget,
I am happy to hear you get it off your chest. Hope your cold goes soon
I remember the good old days when we went on regular holidays coming home with two suitcases full of washing to a dead washing machine. I nearly had an apopleptic fit. Made a hurried purchse on the internet, then discovered it was a fuse!!!!!!!

Wow Gaye,
You have got me thinking. Peter does not suffer from PN.
But as an ex drill instructor….He used to make his recruits pee in their boots and leave it there overnight. They had to wear the said boot wet but emptied the following day but did not get any blisters! The result of which the foot hardened, the boot softened. Im not sure if…[Read more]

All the very best for you shirley. Im sure you will be home before you know it, Lucky You to have had Christmas early, you missed those massive queues in the supermarkets ! Might try some of that myself.
I believe the weather is about to turn awful so batten down the hatches in Devon. (hope I remembered correctly) if its not Devon wherever you are
MIn

Well that one evoked some memories with us golden oldies. Coming from the North East but having spent a lot of time 'down south' when Peter was in the RAF. I know for sure that it is definatly two cardigans colder up here!
My memories of winter are of sleeping with our coats on the bed when it was really bad. The windows being frozen with ice…[Read more]

Hi Kevin,
Haven't heard from you for a wee while so just checking in to find out if your OK, Hope to hear you have made a tiny bit of improvement since last post. Get well soon
On the plus side all of that bl***y snow has melted up here in the frozen north. But its still cold. Dread to think of the central heating bill to come.
Regards
MIn

Hi Jean and Frank.
What a b***t* go on holiday and find yourself poorly Frank. Trouble is if we wrap ourselves up in cotton wool we would not leave the house. Im sorry it turned into such a disaster, for both of you. Jean worrying and Frank suffering.
Keep warm, try not to get a chill, and hope your journey home is not too arduous.
As a…[Read more]

Hi Tom
The only one I have absolute confidence in telling you is your platelets are absolutey spot on perfect. The only reason I know that is Peters are dangerously low at 50 something hence the reason he could not have his velcade last week. The other numbers look like his looked before he started his velcade at pretty darn normal. So dont…[Read more]

Gill twas me who told this site about Healthspan, I have used them for years. Buying omega3 pills. Tip of today if you have an old dog (not your partner LOL) I have started givng my 12yr old lab one of there products called flexijoint and he is behaving like a puppy, with no aches or pains. Wish I could persuade Peter to take…[Read more]

Oh Gill,
I feel for you and Stephen, whilst Peters remission period was shorter than Stephens having had any kind of normal life without meication and tests and more tests it was a wonderful time.
Peter would and did say today, that he feels fine and cant understand why he is or was unaware that the beast is back.
Yesterdays nightmare is over,…[Read more]