That difficult second blog post

At last, here's my second blog post, a lot later than I hoped it would be.

In summary: I'm fine; I'm being well looked after; it's going to be a long haul.

Some notes: I'm very grateful to everybody for the good wishes, the cards, the gifts and the visits; I'm sorry I had to cancel some visits when I was feeling tired, but I'm well enough for visitors now; if you are visiting, you'll need the full address, not just the hospital, so please let me know if you don't have it.

My treatment: the overview of my treatment is that I'll be having (at least) two cycles of chemotherapy followed by a bone marrow transplant; I'm currently undergoing the first cycle - I've completed the chemotherapy part (which excited a lot of people in the hospital as the drug was deep purple - not Deep Purple, thankfully - apparently an unusual colour) and am now awaiting my neutrophils to reach a certain level - I keep asking the consultants when this will happen and each of them has a variation on 'it depends', from 'it depends' itself to the slightly more imaginative 'piece of string' and 'crystal ball territory' - once this happens, provided it happens, then I should be able to go home for a week or two before my next cycle begins.

How I'm feeling: I continue to feel fine, so much so that, if I didn't know I was seriously ill, I'd think I was the fittest I'd been for years. Very strange.

A technical note: I've done my best to disable comments on the blog but it might still entice you with a comments box and then decline to publish - sorry about that - if anybody can advise me on how to remove that, I'll be happy to address it.

Finally: I shall try to make more frequent, probably shorter, posts henceforth. No promises.