Saturday 13 September 2014

First top up was an anti-climax

My donor very kindly donated a goodly amount of T cells so that I can have many topups if I need them. He did this on Thursday some where in London, which enabled me to have 20 mls yesterday afternoon. It only took 5 minutes, but they did have to give me a physical check up and tests my blood and especially liver first 

Just to make me feel better, one of the doctors has to tell me all about the risks. One is that I might get a reaction such as a rash or really bad diarrhoea from graft Vs host ( or the other way around)

The other is my blood counts might crash if the donor cells take over from too many of my original cells too quickly. 

Apart from that it went very smoothly. It was great chatting to the nurses and doctors again, many of whom I had not really seen since my transplant 11 months ago

On Wednsday I have a quick clinic to check for possible reaction

A couple of nights ago we went to the Rock Fish restaurant in Dartmouth and had a lovely meal of very fresh fish

Ros is doing very well, with both her children at secondary school now