{"id":1478,"date":"2008-11-13T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/have-to-wait-2-weeks-more-more-news-but-in-the-meantime\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:10:22","slug":"have-to-wait-2-weeks-more-more-news-but-in-the-meantime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/have-to-wait-2-weeks-more-more-news-but-in-the-meantime\/","title":{"rendered":"Have to wait 2 weeks for more news but in the meantime.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\"><strong>Saw Prof today<\/strong> &#8211; quite grumpy as Blackburn (ok, so it was Burnley, what do I know about northern footy teams??!) &#0160;beat Chelsea at home last night and everyone coming to see him taking the piss, always a bit of an uphill conversation when they&#39;ve been beaten&#8230;..<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\">Nothing much to report, which is&#0160;good. He&#39;s happy with stuff, so I had the <strong>first round of chemo of this new cycle<\/strong> &#8211; a good one, back of the hand IV drip, doesn&#39;t tend to bruise so much there. (And no nagging this time about me having a central line fitted which I am trying to avoid &#8211; basically a permanent canula that they can shovel the drugs in through, but I who wants to have a permanent reminder of all this inserted in their skin unless they really, really have to?). <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\">And it looks like there&#39;s just time to squeeze one more chemo cycle in before Xmas,&#0160;making a grand total of 4&#0160;since diagnosis in Sept&#0160;- it would end on Xmas Eve (nice!) so I suspect they might try and squash it by a few days so we&#39;re not all being shoved out the doors with a special festive&#0160;plaster on our hands&#0160;by Santa that night&#8230;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\">See&#0160;Prof again on&#0160;<strong>Mon 17 Nov and Thurs 20 Nov<\/strong>&#0160;- he says he&#39;ll have something more definitive in terms of&#0160;when to harvest the stem cells and when the stem cell&#0160;transplant might be, prob by that Thurs, once more results are through. So its just a matter of biding time and keeping on trotting up there for more blood tests &amp; jolly japes till then.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\">And beyond that, what other news? Met a <strong>good friend of Hawksey&#39;s last night &#8211; chap called Viv<\/strong> &#8211; over dinner in the Pig &amp; Whistle &#8211; have always found that lager shandy goes so well with Caesar salad, well, ish. The <strong>lovely Swight &amp; Woodsie<\/strong> are popping round for some kitten cuddling &amp; a spot of nosh &amp; beers this Fri eve after work, then H and I are off down to the coast for the weekend, pottering about and staying on the boat. If anyone&#39;s free, do come&#0160;and join us!&#0160;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\">Spot of shopping and ambling around Sandbanks is in order,&#0160;then we have our usual booth booked at <strong>Graze, the<\/strong> one <strong>very cool little place in Lymington<\/strong> (otherwise occupied by a major granny and wheelie trolley population) for their excellent fruits de mer&#0160;&amp; cracking cocktails on Sat eve. The Asian Martini is a winner &#8211; with its hint of lychee, which has even superceded passion fruit for me, and that&#39;s saying something&#8230; Back on Mon, allowing <strong>sister Cathy &amp; hubby Emmanuel<\/strong> who are staying with us at the mo, to host a dinner party Sun eve in our pad. Better be some nice leftovers for us&#8230;.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\">And <strong>late Nov\/Dec\/Xmas diary dates<\/strong> are starting to flow in, you can tell its November and we all want some top nights out to look forward to! More, more, more I say &#8211; do keep &#39;em coming! <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"195523412-13112008\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial\">S x<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Prof today &#8211; quite grumpy as Blackburn (ok, so it was Burnley, what do I know about northern footy teams??!) &#0160;beat Chelsea at home last night and everyone coming to see him taking the piss, always a bit of an uphill conversation when they&#39;ve been beaten&#8230;.. Nothing much to report, which is&#0160;good. 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