{"id":6637,"date":"2016-07-04T20:33:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2016-07-04T20:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:46:01","slug":"monday-4th-july-2016-just-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6637","title":{"rendered":"Monday 4th July 2016 &#8211; JUST FOR A CHANGE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; no-one disturbed me during the night and I had a reasonable night&#8217;s sleep. I was up and about a couple of times during the night as you might expect, and I was off on my travels too. And I would tell you all about it except that you are probably eating your breakfast or something right now.<\/p>\n<p>I was up before the alarm went off too &#8211; beating the blasted church bells by a couple of minutes &#8211; and I had a good breakfast. I was not alone either &#8211; I had company for fifteen minutes or so while I tucked in.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to sort myself afterwards and then went off to the hospital. A brisk 20-minute walk (and saying that it was brisk tells you how I&#8217;m feeling right now) brought me to the hospital, and I dropped off my nice clean bed-linen in Caliburn. That&#8217;s more stuff out of the way now. However, when I returned here later in the afternoon, I bought a pile of tinned stuff with me so we are quits.<\/p>\n<p>But we have had some good news in the hospital, and that is that my blood count has gone up from 9.3 to 10.0 &#8211; all on its own. And that&#8217;s after two weeks too. Mind you, we&#8217;ve had a couple of false dawns before as you know, and so I&#8217;m more interested in seeing what it will be like in two weeks time. <\/p>\n<p>We discussed my water retention issues, and they sent me down for a scan to see whether there was a thrombosis. That turned out to be negative, so they could start the next lot of treatment. They are giving me Mabthera, something that is designed for the chemotherapy-intolerant of those who have relapsed. I had that last time and I didn&#8217;t notice any side-effects and that&#8217;s positive news.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, no blood transfusion and that&#8217;s always good news too.<\/p>\n<p>They have given me an emergency number to ring in case I have another major swelling issue like the other weekend, so I&#8217;ll have to file that carefully. I might need it.<\/p>\n<p>I was liberated late in the afternoon and walked back down here in the heat and sunshine and doesn&#8217;t that make a pleasant change? <\/p>\n<p>I cooked myself a meal of chick peas and the like with rice and had a chat with Lizand Rosemary on the internet. Now, I&#8217;m having a quiet relax before bedtime.<\/p>\n<p>And in other news, I&#8217;m sure that you have noticed that yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-36702468\" target=\"_blank\">another rat has deserted the sinking ship<\/a>. It seems that the Brexit &#8220;Ship of Fools&#8221; is now drifting helplessly on the storm-tossed seas with no hand on the tiller. Not one of the leaders of the &#8220;Brexit&#8221; campaign has stayed to steer the ship. That&#8217;s because they all know what is awaiting them (Standard Life is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-36708844\" target=\"_blank\">first financial institution to close down part of its UK operations<\/a> as a result of the result) and they don&#8217;t want to have the catastrophe nailed on their doors. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really quite funny to watch all the Brexit leaders running away. <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-6637 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='6637' data-nonce='6b9557f122' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-6637 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-6637 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6637' data-nonce='6b9557f122' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-6637 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-6637 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; no-one disturbed me during the night and I had a reasonable night&#8217;s sleep. I was up and about a couple of times during the night as you might expect, and I was off on my travels too. And I would tell you all about it except that you are probably eating your breakfast or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,44,4507,3173,3371],"tags":[1673,5222,5208,7189,5381,1790,6481,7282,212,2482,2560,5911,392,5918,7422,7424,7426,7425,7423],"class_list":["post-6637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-hospital","category-leuven","tag-belgium-2","tag-blood-count","tag-body-scanner","tag-brexit","tag-caliburn","tag-caliburn-bedding","tag-chemotherapy","tag-church-bells","tag-dream","tag-early-start","tag-eric-hall","tag-hospital","tag-httpwww-bbc-co-uk","tag-leuven","tag-mapthera","tag-nigel-farage","tag-ship-of-fools","tag-standard-life","tag-thrombosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}