New template - I did it!

Well, I just couldn't leave this blog with that other boring, boring template! So I've found another one. It came from the same place as my other new one (see the link at the bottom if you're interested).

And now to my final health report for now! I had another blood test last Monday and saw my doctor the following day. (my birthday!!) The blood test results were - well, I was going to list them all out but now I can't find them!! If I find them later I'll come back and change this post, but in the meantime ... Basically my WBC levels had come down from the last test (done about 6 weeks ago). But the doctor reckons that these previous test results were probably reflecting the booster neupogen injection I'd had a few weeks earlier. If we take those results out of the equation, then my WBC levels are coming up. So he was pleased, and so was I (once I'd had that explained to me!)

I'll be having scans (PET and CT) at the end of June, and will see my doctor a couple of weeks after that (though he did say he'd ring the results through to me). Assuming all is well with them (which we both are!) he said he's not going to get more scans (or BMBs) done unless there's some other indication of problems down the line in the future. I guess I'll be seeing him every 3 months or so for a while. But I am clear to have a flu injection (which I wasn't last time I saw him), and I can do anything I want! Like go to India, Morocco (that's next year!) etc etc! Yippeee!!!

So, I'll post updates on my health here when there's news. Let's hope there's none, or very little!! No - I'll report here whenever I see the doctor / have tests, etc. But otherwise, for my normal, (happily boring!) life, you'll have to go to my other blog! And, see you here again in July ... :)

Gone back to my other blog

Had to happen - I'm going back to my original blog - http://susiegb.blogspot.com, and will just post health updates here on this one. Hopefully that won't be happening too often - in that hopefully there won't be much to report on health-wise!! I will post after my meeting with my haematologist next Tuesday. But apart from that, anyone who wants to know what I'm up to will have to go to my other blog!

It's been great doing this - I definitely recommend blogging to anyone who goes through anything like this. Because it's very easy to forget about how it all was, and it's so good to be able to re-visit it from a distance and see how it was, and how far you've come ... :)

And I will definitely update this template sometime!

rope-able!

I cannot believe I was so stupid! I had decided I'd go back to my old 'journeys' blog soon, and leave this one, now that I'm in remission(!) I still intend to update it with health-news, but I'm moving away from my health being the dominant issue in my life (wonderful to be able to say that!) and so wanted to go back to the other one.

So I had been been looking around the web for nice new Blogger templates ... I found a very nice one, but at one point I'd come back to look at the code for this blog's template to see where it had come from. And I forgot. So I uploaded the new template here, and because I hadn't saved the old (lovely!) template, that one is gone!!

grrr.... #@!!@#@!

Anyway, I've found another simple template for here as a stop-gap, and will keep my eyes open for (yet) another template for this site. I'm keeping the other one (a goldfish theme!) for my 'journeys' blog, which I'll probably go back to in a week or so. Just kind of waiting till I've seen the doctor again next week ... :)

busy busy busy ... :)

Had a great, if very busy, weekend. But - come to think of it, it's Monday after a busy busy weekend and I'm not tired. So that's really good - my energy levels must still be on the rise!

So, on Saturday I rushed around on the weekend, organising things for the big party, then on Sunday went to a choir alto rehearsal, out to lunch with relatives and got back in time (well a bit late, but still!) for a friend who'd come over for me to give her a lesson on her new, cute-as-anything iPod nano! She's off on a big overseas trip on Wednesday, to the US and then the UK for a couple of months. She won a Churchill Fellowship to investigate the establishment of a collaborative print/poetry small press! (I copied that blurb from the website!) I'm also looking after her chooks while she's away!

And I did manage to get to yoga class too, which was good. It's interesting, my flexibility and strength are still not back as they were, so I'm using the opportunity to approach most poses as being new to me, and sort of seeing them through new eyes, seeing new aspects to them.