OK. So it seems that whilst I was asleep the US got a new President and many of you have me down as a closet Lethargian. Poor Nik had to fill in quite late last night when it became clear I was struggling with extended periods of consciousness. I've been more alert today, especially this morning and I think have felt generally the best I have got a while. (You know how it can be you only realised you were feeling under the weather when you get better as you're knowledge of normal becomes a little skewed.)
So to today. My platelet count has dropped very low and so I've has another transfusion of those. The reason for the concern is some bleeding I'be been experiencing and led to the joy of Happy Matt the Kiwi registrar looking up my bum with a torch! Anyway he saw nothing amiss (Matron!) but prescribed the transfusion to be on the safe side. My counts generally are off scale low, in fact I have so few neutrophils the machine can't find any. The docs constantly tell me that my sense of well-being will return when those blighters start showing up in big numbers again. Fingers crossed that will be in the next couple of days now. Maybe by the weekend I'll be up to seeing the kids, as it will have been a fortnight by then. Mind you tonight they could barely drag themselves away from The Simpsons to talk to me, which means all is normal in their world, which can only be a good thing. Is this how they imagine me? Doh!
So to today. My platelet count has dropped very low and so I've has another transfusion of those. The reason for the concern is some bleeding I'be been experiencing and led to the joy of Happy Matt the Kiwi registrar looking up my bum with a torch! Anyway he saw nothing amiss (Matron!) but prescribed the transfusion to be on the safe side. My counts generally are off scale low, in fact I have so few neutrophils the machine can't find any. The docs constantly tell me that my sense of well-being will return when those blighters start showing up in big numbers again. Fingers crossed that will be in the next couple of days now. Maybe by the weekend I'll be up to seeing the kids, as it will have been a fortnight by then. Mind you tonight they could barely drag themselves away from The Simpsons to talk to me, which means all is normal in their world, which can only be a good thing. Is this how they imagine me? Doh!
10 comments:
Welcome back you old Lethargian. It is nice to have you back. Perhaps you can ask Happy Matt to post and describe what he saw :-)
Joking aside keep getting better we are looking forward to platlet rich posts.
Love, Chris & Sandra
Hello to you, good to know you are a bit more awake today, I can't believe we are now on day + 7. I'm sure you will be able to see the kids at the weekend perhaps even manage that trip to the zoo! [I wonder if AFIL will get to find out where the daffodil was placed ]Look forward to seeing you soon Love from Dad and Mum XXX
Hi Rory
Good to hear from you again. I assume there was no sign of the sun where Happy Matt was looking.
Hope those stemmies start getting their act together to secure your escape from the Tower
Lots of love Iain and Lisa
p.s you rather opened yourself up for the lethargy gags - good job you slept through them
Welcome back! Happy Matt's behaviour sounds like an old D.U.S.T. sketch... ho hum. I wonder whether it's the kind of thing they tell you about in career advice: "... and your job will involve..." Is it, you should ask him, an over-scubscribed profession?? I feel I need to know...
Seriously, here's to tons of neutrophils surging through your system. Love, Lucy & Guy B
Rorrr, Great to see you back on form. Frankly, I'm a bit more concerned about ChrisandSandra now.
Keep up the good work (Nurse! The neutrophils!) x Cluggers
I attach a message from one of our colleagues...
Hello Rory,
Have been following your superb telling of events since Day 1 or should that be Day minus? I forget now. But I can tell you I have been thinking about you every step of the way. I'd have written sooner but because of my fear of technological wizardry was loathed to click on buttons in case I signed up to a membership of "Housework Weekly". I shall be very proud of my efforts if this has got through to you, but nothing like the pride and sheer admiration I have for how well you're coping. I am really hoping you can see the family this weekend. Since you slept- America may have had a new president, but Jenny King has had a little boy, colleagues have had colds and coughs and I and others would climb the walls of your castle to swamp you with affectionate greetings - except that matron might have something to say and we don't want to stomp on the Neutrophils’ ground (which I hope are forming an army at this very moment.)
Sleep well - lots of rest and keep your eyes on the nurses and your fingers on the keyboard … and we'll see how many typos you make the next time you blog!
With much love
Diana
Hello Rory Simpson Morrison
The likeness is uncanny! Lovely to have you blogging again. Happy Matt did not find the daffodil then? - watch out he may be recharging his batteries. In the meantime, keep that production line producing
All love AMIL and AFIL
This is a regurgitation of the message I somehow planted on an earlier dateline.
We're tracking your progress Rory and are glad you're in such expert hands for this state of art therapy.
You have our sympathy for all the trauma of nausea etc. you are having to put up with. Hope to see you in Malvern before long.
Love from Brian & Jan, and Helen & Sian and their families.
Reub has borrowed your log-in.
Dear Dad
I love reading your diary. Hope you're having good dreams. Lots of Love from Reuben. xxxxx
Well done Reuben, You'll soon be doing the blogs for your Dad. Love from Granny Anne
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