Hi Helen,

That's all the heavy work out of the way… now next time have more coffee breaks and allow the great and the good to come to you… with only truly exceptional circumstances moving your backside from its place on your chair.

Take a Whoppee Cushion with you to ensure you remember each time you leave and return to your desk.8-)…[Read more]

Hi Craig & Etta,

I'm glad that everything's going relatively smoothly towards the SCT.:-)

Now, I've never flown so far around the world but I have been at 3 month's post-SCT. Hmmm. I think you should consider Easter as a target… a great goal and while the season might not be as socially important or attractive, Etta will feel much…[Read more]

I enjoyed… and appreciated that one Min.:-D

Come on everybody… get your thinking caps on and give us your favourite joke. It doesn't matter how short or long or silly… just that it makes [i][b][/i]you[/b] laugh.8-)

Dai.

Hi All,

Seen by my 'thorough' GP this morning and after examination he declared me 'on the mend'. Apropos of Keith's dilemma, he thought my dose of 40mg of Dex in one sitting to be 'rather excessive'. He didn't envy me having so much at once… I told him that I felt so bad initially yesterday morning that I decided to leave it until…[Read more]

Hi Everybody,

Thank you one and all for your messages of support.:-)

I woke this morning at 7am to a temperature of 38.10 and I thought OK? hospital it is. I left it until 8am to allow for shift changes and the fact that I would be examined at the Day Case Unit, which doesn?t officially open until 9am.

Now here?s a truth. I will not…[Read more]

Hi Eve,

I hope your daughter enjoyed the Men's Final match.:-D

I thought the result was a fair one all in all… but Andy Murray certainly tied up in the third set and played as if he didn't believe he could win. Still, he played his part and was extremely gracious in defeat… which raised him in my estimation.. as a human being, if not…[Read more]

Hi Stephen,

Full steam ahead… There's no going back now!:-D

Talking of steam, that's the first thing to go, so for the next seven to ten days you will be running on reserve power… You will have to learn to use it sparingly and monitor your intake of fluids and food. I always thought that food would be my big problem but actually my…[Read more]

Hi Andy,

A belated 'best wishes' for your 'Question Time' today… I am sure you will let us know in due course, I just wanted to let you know that you are in my thoughts.:-)

Dai.

Movicol Powders (or equivalent brands) that you mix with water are absolutely essential as far as I'm concerned Keith… especially if you are morphine tablets.:-S

I try to ensure that I take at least one a day when things are good and two a day if I'm feeling bloated. When I feel constipated I will take up to six powders over a six to eight…[Read more]

Hi Keith,

What strength of Clexane/Enoxaparin are you on?

I was on 140mg for 6 months (from July '11 to end of December '11 – started when I developed a DVT during Velcade) and since then, starting in January this year I have dropped to a maintenance level of 40mg… making it a year in total.

I have lost weight overall but my stomach…[Read more]

Dear Angie,

I am so sorry that so much was laid on your Mum, giving little to no chance of fighting her disease once the complication of such an aggressive secondary disease as the Plasma Cell Leukaemia joined forces with her existing Multiple Myeloma. As I said earlier I am glad that that your Mum was able to request the start of palliative…[Read more]

Oh, I don't know… I'm sure I could entertain them with some graphic up-pan shots of me scraping solidified turds out of my back passage with my fingers while bleeding profusely until finally unplugged.:-D

And they could follow me through my Tuesday Dexday TM… I could sweat profusely at will and show off my embarrassing body as I changed…[Read more]

Well I had my bottle of Guinness and I raised it up to Bridget and said farewell.8-)

I think I'll leave it at that for today… but I know her influence will be a lasting one and her approach to life and death will always be a comfort to me. xxx 🙂

Dai.

Hi Jo,

It's good to see and hear from you… on Bridget's funeral day I like to see that all my friends are out and about and as good as can be. 😎 🙂

As I understand it, after being corrected by Ellen, Velcade is a cousin of Carfilzomib and not, as I erroneously posted earlier, a cousin of thalidomide. (But I'm still going to check that…[Read more]

Hi Helen,

Now ain't that the truth.:-D

I have had some of the most painful and stressful times of my 'journey' while sitting on the toilet with a constipated blockage… now normally a few quick successions of Movicol does the trick but can still wipe me out… then there are the liquid pessaries, saved for emergencies which can be quite…[Read more]

Hi Keith,

I meant to come back to your earlier post and Helen has just reminded me but I too sometimes get stomach cramps which are a signal to head west… it can get quite uncomfortable before it gets sorted but I don't just get the cramps in isolation.:-|

Dai.

She would indeed Eve, she would indeed.:-)

And perhaps she is.:-D

Dai.

Hi Eve,

Janet bought me a six pack bottles of Guinness in the New Year… I have five left. But I too will raise a bottle to Bridget's memory tonight… and enjoy it thoroughly I will too.:-D

All the very best to all of the very best.8-)

Dai.

Hi Jean,

I too took inspiration from Bridget's posts to other people, As a writer I soon spotted her 'style' which was quite natural but very, very effective.8-)

Bridget would open by accepting her correspondents problem and sometimes agreeing with it. But she would always pick up on the slightest positive and accentuate it before…[Read more]