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Off to Dubai!!!!
Dubai .. or do you not buy? That is the question. Well, last night we decided we would – Hawksey has been invited back to the Dubai Rugby Sevens, to referee… yes, the event 2 years ago when he stepped out onto the pitch to blow his whistle and give it large… and promptly ruptured a…
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‘Celeb’ Spotting
Ran a workshop in Covent Garden for Maryland Cookies yesterday (ate too many of the dry little buggers, the biscuits that is, not the clients) and as came out onto a side road off Covent Garden what sight did I behold? None other than those little numpties, the irish twins from X Factor, John & Edward…
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Weird stuff people say…
Just had to share this with you as its been bugging me since it happened and I thought it might raise a macabre laugh or at least a quizzical eyebrow or two. I thought the oddest comment I'd heard so far in response to people knowing about me getting MM was the one from an…
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Mum’s 80 Today – Aaah
Its always hard to type 'aaah' and make it either sound like: 1. 'AAHAHHHHHHHHHH' (as in I just fell off a cliff / had an axe embedded in my skull / have put my hand's in a child's nappy and the poo has smeared all up my arm) vs 2. 'AAAgghhhhh@ which is 'oh how nice, someone's…
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Think you know what a QALY is?
For anyone reading this from Added Value, you're probably thinking 'well a QALY is a Qualitative researcher, but why's Scotty spelled Quallie so oddly?' Aha – think again… Thought you might be interested in seeing some of the things I get up to, now I move in this shadowy alternative world of Myeloma. So here's…
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Myeloma Infoday London
Hawksey & I went this Sat to the annual Myeloma Infoday, organised by Myeloma UK, the main charidee for my poxy disease. Was really well run and incredibly handy to be able to ask any medical question at all to a panel of experts – and actually get a reply (not quite what tends to happen with…
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We’re Back!
Just a quickie as in the office with 150 unopened emails in front of me… ah the joy! So naturally the best course of action is to ignore them all and whack out a quick mini blog. We had a LOVELY TIME! Sri Lanka was fab in all regards – brilliant stuff to see, ranging…
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Off to Sri Lanka
Now, there's some words I was never too sure I'd be able to finally say – but all things being equal over the next 3 days, we will indeed be off in the big iron bird to Colombo this Friday! So hopes are: 1. That flying Emirates in Economy via Dubai won't provoke too many withdrawal…
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September Sign Off All Good
Huzzah! Just seen Prof and the words '9 months out (since Stem Cell Transplant) and you look stunning' summed it up. Paraprotein down to 'apostrophe 1' (ie some mini zones of it showing at a nice low level of 1, not even a whole number). Happy with amount of stem cells collected last week –…
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One Year Anniversary
Blimey, can you adam and eve it - this weekend marked one year since I was diagnosed. One whole year, hardly seems possible. I guess quite a lot has happened in that time, as it tends to in a year, new jobs for some, babies for others (Claire & Jon, Liney, Nets and some besides), marriages (congratulations Davina & Guy on Sat),…