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Today is day Zero …  the day that I get my stem cells back.   These are my own Stem Cells that were collected on 22nd and 23rd August. Yesterday was day ‘Minus One’, and a very long day too, with lots of fluids being pushed around me. The main fluid was Melphalan. And now I’m… Continue reading DAY ZERO!!!

I’m fantasising about a cup of tea, as Nurse Maisy arrives to measure my BP and stuff.  And bless her she gets me a cup of tea.   That’s so much better. Now for a shower, this could be a challenge. I was given a whole lot of infection detection swabs last night, for various… Continue reading Maisy & France

First night in Hospital Monday 1:30 am!  – woken by ward doctor 👩‍⚕️, and medical check up/exam follows 🙄 And now I’m writing this 01:57 am. Ooooo this is a very strange 24 hour world That’s never happened to me before! Lots of Doctory questions hot/cold/aches/pains/smoke/alcohol/ etc etc.  I can’t remember, & wonder what I… Continue reading Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner!

Hospital phone call at 10:55 today … “Are you aware that you’re on the list, and you may be admitted today? 😬😳 1:30 pm … place your bets … IN or NOT? 2 pm … Now been advised to book transport, and wait until 6pm for confirmation 😳😬 Oh bloomin bloomin ……….. It’s on! I… Continue reading STRANGER & STRANGER

Alice phoned from Hospital this morning 😊 And she must have taken a very deep breath before contacting us 😧 Because she said that there was absolutely no bed availability in the week ahead, and that … it may be like that until December 🫤 Oh well!! Being positive, we will enjoy the rest of… Continue reading Alice & Zoella

A few evenings ago we wanted to watch something easy and  relaxing on TV. Something where I wouldn’t have to keep asking 🤨 “Who’s that?”. Heading for Netflix, we randomly picked a film, called ‘From Scratch’ . And watched three and a half of the eight episodes. It was really enjoyable, and easy to watch. … Continue reading “From Scratch”

I’ve been thinking about having a really exciting competition, here on HubbleBubble, to predict the date that I’d (eventually) be admitted to hospital 🧐   There’d be a totally thrilling £5 prize for the reader who guesses the nearest date 😊 But then I remembered that some years ago, when I was a fully-functional* human… Continue reading It’s a date!

I’ve been getting a bit edgy recently, because of the constant delays to Hospital admission … … and the need to arrange, cancel, and re-arrange transport. I’ve also been having concerns/worries/fears that the insidious Myeloma (very-creepy-bad-thing) might start quietly, sinisterly and sneekily reappearing.  SO … I decided to make a total pain of myself and… Continue reading WOW!!!

Well … as instructed, I waited until 12:00 to phone the Hospital Bed Manager, to check my admission that’s booked for today, Sunday. Once again, pretty well as I expected, it couldn’t be done, because of bed unavailability. The main problem is that the treatment that patients like me have (and I will have) totally… Continue reading No Admission

For the last two and a half years and a bit, one of my jobs has been ordering our home food shopping deliveries 🤓 And I’ve grown to enjoy the power of my position 🙂 Yesterday, I created next week’s shopping list and ran through it with my manager, aka Amanda (my wife) She was… Continue reading Shopping Damage