It’s now five days since the transplant and I feel totally wiped out and crap. We had laughed at the seat below the shower when I first moved in to my little prison, but today I had to make use of it! I feel 90!

Anyhow, sorry for the lack of updates. It’s all I can do just to have a glance at Facebook for a few minutes, but I don’t feel like interacting with anyone. They have told me I am a model patient, and that everything is going as expected – well apart from the fact they couldn’t ram the feeding tube up my nose – and that sleep is good. So, apart from the odd visit from Jane and Zig I really haven’t done much else.

Apparently today is the low point and things get better from here. I am once again neutropenic so fully expect some odd infections, as long as I don’t look like bloody Elephant Man again! At least I am an in-patient this time and they will jump on anything untoward very quickly.

I am still amazed that I am here going through this, but they are already checking to see if my blood group has changed yet so things can move on.

Thanks for all the messages of love and support – I will be back full flow as soon as I can be arsed!! 😉

I’ve just had a visit from a volunteer, to see if I would like to book a meeting with the Chaplain??!!

“Why?” I asked, “is there something you know that I don’t?”
“No”, she said “it’s just if you wanted someone to talk to about your condition.”

Very politely I replied, “I have a team of consultants, doctors and nurses at a press of a button, 3,900 hits on my website, 70 timeline messages, 20 voice mail messages, 35 private Facebook messages, and my sister is on her way!”

“Oh, you seem fairly busy”, she said, ” I won’t book you in.” And then she proceeded to tell me her problems!

Perhaps that’s part of the therapy to make me feel better 😉

Amazing, the transplant has started, and the bag of tomato soup hanging in the background contains millions of Jane’s stem cells. It took four and a half hours to get them out of her, it will take about an hour and a half to drop them into me!

Haven’t been able to blog over the last few days as have felt so sick and exhausted, the chemo I have had has been such a high dose, I won’t even start with the side affects!!! Finally all done!!!

My gorgeous sister arrived yesterday with my brother inlaw as it was my birthday along with zig, Henry and Charlie! But I was a bit ‘out of it’, not the best company!

Jane is at this moment along the corridor giving me her much needed cells, because without her this treatment can’t happen!

All has and is going according to plan, the transplant will take place at 5.30 pm!!!! Sent from my iPad

They have soon put a stop to my games!!!

Arrived yesterday at 4pm, have got a great room and ensuite – plasma, exercise bike, fridge, kettle, all singing all dancing bed, air filtering, electric Venetian blinds, defo in upper class! Now let’s get back to why I am here!!! I cannot walk out of this room for 4 weeks, I was connected to a drip until midnight giving me antiviral drugs, they are basically preparing me to be really ill! That is the hard part at the moment I feel great, but this afternoon they will start giving me campath, which is chemo that will go into me over 9 hours, it will make me feel like I have flu and give me the shakes! Great can’t wait! On a lighter note they also want me to do all my business in bedpans! Cheers for that.