Latest Hospital visit

Yesterday Nick and I went to the Hospital to meet with the Hematology people and also to talk through what the process would be for his treatment.

Whilst we were in a meeting with 5 other doctors/consultants the Bone Marrow doctor fell asleep which was really really funny! Yet not a great advert for the guy who is going to be trying to take bone marrow from Nick.

It turns out ALL the treatment will take place in Rotherham - the only reason Nick will need to travel to Sheffield is if he requires Radio Therapy... and that would be after the Chemotherapy has ended and if it had not cleared it up.

Nick's treatment will take place every 3 weeks in Rotherham Hospital and administered through an IV and at the end of the day he will be given a course of Chemotherapy tablets for 5 days. After the 5 days will be when the fun and games start, and Nick's blood counts will go up down and round and round and that's when the symptoms will start to kick in.

Nick also got weighed and measured so they could get the correct amount of drugs mixed on the day on the first course of Chemo.

Nick also had to have 7 tubes of blood taken - I'm surprised he's got any left in him ;)

He also had to have a full body CT scan - which before hand he had to drink about 2 pints of thick white gloopy stuff and also have some dye injected in to him.

It was a hectic day - we got to the hospital at 10:15am and got home about 5:30pm. Still - with all the waiting around I managed to get started on the Christmas Cards ;)

All the staff we have dealt with so far have been BRILLIANT! Long may it continue.

Speak soon

Love Lynn-Marie x x x