Andy Burrows

I’m only about half way through my hospital stay. And it feels such a long time to go until I get home. And even when I get home I know it’s going to be a long road to full recovery. I’m definitely starting to feel the strain on my body now. Tummy ache and going…

If yesterday was boring, today was almost more so… until later. I felt a bit off-colour and a bit tired at a few points in the day, but mostly I’m still feeling ok. My bowel movements are being ‘monitored’ now, as my 7 or 8 off-colour moments seem to be related to them (I’m trying…

Thoughts from yesterday. Today is the anti-climax really, rather than yesterday. No chemo, no stem cells. Just sitting around, trying to keep occupied in some way, but really just waiting for the inevitable deterioration that is due to happen in a few days. I slept well, relatively, last night. Heidi brought Tom and Anna with…

Day Zero! Before we get to the important part, for the benefit of my mum, let’s get this part out of the way – the food has been very nice so far. I’ve enjoyed all of it (although perhaps the soup was a bit bland if I was to be fussy). I haven’t been organised…

The IV fluids were going all night, at a slow rate. When the drip machine is going at that speed it sounds like Barney, our dog, snoring as he normally does in the corner of our bedroom at night. So it’s not particularly disruptive. But I still didn’t sleep well. It probably has something to…

Ok, so I said I would skip today’s journal. But I was persuaded by my mum to post something because she likes to keep in touch. I just didn’t want to be boring people with the same old stuff! So here we are on ‘Day -2’. Last night’s sleep was ok, and ‘obs’ were all…

It’s Saturday today. Chemo-wise it’s exactly the same as yesterday, so I won’t bore you with it. The mild nausea comes and goes, and I mainly feel fine. I slept ok last night. Ironically the thing that kept me awake, if anything, was the fact that nobody woke me up to do ‘obs’! I was…

My sleep last night was even worse than the previous night. I can’t really understand it. The bed is comfortable, the room is fairly quiet, the nurses are not intrusive. I wonder if it’s just psychological, knowing that I’ll be woken at 2am and 6am and so I’m kept awake waiting for it to happen?…

My sleep last night wasn’t great, but not terrible. The nurse was very quiet coming in to do my obs (temperature, pulse and blood pressure) at 2:45am and then again at 6:15am. The main thing that disturbed my sleep was that I kept waking up panicking that I’d forgotten what I was supposed to be…