Monday June 4

Welcome to the first journal entry, just to give you all a brief update on Sarah's current position.
Sarah is currently on Day 17 on her 2nd cycle of Chemotherapy, and we are currently staying in the Gloucester Hostel which is across the road from the main hospital site. Sarah actually came home on May 24th for a couple of days so she was able to spend her birthday at home, and administer her own Chemotherapy, the best birthday present she could have hoped for!
At present Sarah's platelet count is low, after a couple of platelet transfusions, so she is having some extra special platelets shipped in from Brentwood(!)
Her daily routine is now set as she has to report to the Bodley Scott Day Unit at the hospital twice a day: 10am and 5pm, so that her observations are taken and the doctors have the opportunity to monitor her progress. If given the all clear then Sarah is free to leave the confines of the hospital and venture into the City!
The children still come up once a week on a Saturday and have such a good time with their mother, and it is too cruel that Sarah is kept apart from them during her illness when she should be the one at home looking after them. Both the girls have grown up so quickly during the last few months and I regularly catch Abigail telling Natasha that "Mummy is in London, Calpol".
Anyway, a short brief update and now that this site is up and running I shall try and keep it updated, and back post some journal entries.
Apologies for the recent lull in Barts updates but would you believe work has been exceptionally hectic of late stemming my capacity to pen witty retorts!.
Stuart