Friday, March 23, 2007

Guess where I went today

No, nothing exciting. Went to the hospital yet again. I seem to be there most days during the week. This time they wanted to test my kidneys before I start my next treatment. Apparently the radiotheraphy can affect my kidneys. I was told over the phone that the tests will take 3 hours. What they didn't tell me was that they were going to injectment is a radioactive isotope at 11am, and then I wasn't needed for a further 3 hours!

Luckily my brother-in-law was with me, so I showed him around Borough Market. He loved it. It reminded me of when I used to work near the market and organise 'office picknics'. Everyone would chip in £5 and we'd go and buy lots of fresh bread, olives, fruits and spreads. Then we would book a meeting room and pig out.

Once I'd finished at the market my brother visited a friend for lunch. So I called a couple of old friends up who worked near London Bridge. Convinced them to go to a local greasy spoon. I managed to eat half a portion of chips and an egg yolk, not bad. It was good to see my old friends again. Thanks for making lunch at such short notice.

Finally I went back to the hospital for an hour of tests under a scanner. Kidneys look in good shape although they said they need to do further analysis. Whilst waiting for the scan, my brother decided to side on a chair that weighs him at the same time. I went over the read his weight when an alarm goes off. We thought he broke the chair. Turns out that the chair was next to a giger and I was setting the alarm off because of my injection! The doctor said I was not allowed to hug my daughter for 24hrs because of the radiation :(

Eating : toast with jam, chips and egg, large packet of crisps, 2 mini samosas, 2 ice cream lollies and probably more after writing this blog.
Sickness : 1/10

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like Borough market too.Definitely worth a visit soon.
Hopefully I should be coming to see you next week.Are you staying mainly at home or wondering into London occasionally?
Dev

Anonymous said...

We wont make you angry, we wont like you when you're angry.
More than one reason to look green these days eh?
Oh Jay, you big Hulk!

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Reena