Morning all.
A landmark day I suppose. A week since my stem cells got bundled back in - my, how time's flown.
Nothing very new to report. During the night, my temperature was creeping up a bit and reached 37.5 (had always been around 36.4). This mornings obs showed it back to 36.5.
Appetite and taste seem to be getting back to some sort of normal. I ate like a pig for breakfast - 2 boxes of chocolatey, sugar-laiden cereal with full fat milk and a fudge yoghurt with 2 cups of tea. Would have had toast as well but the staff seemed too busy to disturb (they have to make it for me fresh in ward kitchen and bring straight around). Will maybe get some mid-morning.
Had a shave this morning as my beard was getting to the point where it would be sore to shave later. Hair and beard still hanging in there, but likely to fall out spontaneously by about Monday or Tuesday. After I shaved, my chin turned into a patchwork of little eruptions - bleeding from bits that weren't actually cuts and would normally not bleed. That's what having no platelets will do to you.
Well, I'll finish this post, go away and do some excercise, then I've a bit of napping to do.
Hope you all have a great Friday.
Later
Good afternoon big bro thought about doing some exercise myself today so i'm going to walk to asda and get 3 bottles of wine for a tener and some nibbles to eat after my take away curry lovely. might have a shave tonight or leave it till tomorrow could get dangerous after drinking the vino.I'll give you a wee phone later better get a bit of work done before the boss shouts at me luv your wee blisterxx
ReplyDeleteWee Blister,
ReplyDeleteI thought you'd got the facial hair problem storted after that bloody expensive electrolysis programme we gave you last christmas?
Enjoy your cheap wine and curry, ya working class yokel. Hope you've taped Jerry Kyle to watch with it.
:-)
Love you. Thanks you angel for the tear-inducingly generous donation to Corris marathon. You're stars. Common, but stars nonetheless (I'm adopted)
Glad to hear you're still feeling good. Now Joe, thinking about Mandy, Liz & I in "that way" has probably contributed to your sudden overnight rise in temperature?
ReplyDeleteKirsten, i too thought the dogs were empathising with their dad on the diarrhoea front. I wondered why Corri gave me 10 doggie-poo bags, Barra stopped for a poo, went 10 yards did another, then carried on this pattern across the park, producing score 6 stools (Bristol Scale), fluffy with ragged edges (Lewis & Heaton, 1997). Fraoch on the other hand, decided to target trees & produced type 4-5 stools half-way up the tree trunk, which was more difficult to retrieve. Also puzzling to passer-bys as the dogs were long gone, ran off to play at the other end of the park, whilst i'm left scrapping the proverbial s*** off a tree trunk.
Joe thanks for highlighting your hospital reading. The Bristol scale paper was highly entertaining.
Jx
Reference:
Lewis & Heaton. Stool form scale as a useful guide to intestinal transit time. Scand J Gastroentol. 1997;32:920-924. (This work was funded by Kellog's, I kid u not)
Further refs provided on request.