Today I’m back at the QE for lung and heart tests. They always do these before a transplant to check you’re healthy enough – keeping my fingers crossed there’s nothing to worry about! Sure there won’t be.
I’m feeling pretty healthy at the moment, if a little bit fat! I’ve signed up to the London to Paris virtual bike ride for Myeloma UK – you get a month to ride the 508km to Paris! I’m feeling slightly proud of myself as I started it 2 days after my stem cell harvest, and after 5 days have done 60% of it! I’d really like to finish the last 170km today and tomorrow!!
I’m not actually trying to fundraise on this one as I’d really like to do the real thing in May next year and I’ll need to ask everyone then so that I can raise the £1,500 sponsorship target. That’s on top of the £1000 I’ll pay out of my own pocket to take part! But if anyone does feel the desire to donate, they can do so here.
I’m also hoping to find a bike company who might donate/ help with the cost of a bike/ equipment so if anyone can help please let me know! I’m happy to advertise them on social media and the local press if so!! Currently trying to decide between a normal bike and an ebike- I’m likely to only be 4-6 months post transplant and far from full fitness so an electric bike might have to be the answer.
I’ll decide after I’ve had the transplant whether to go ahead or not – I think I have till Christmas to register. So we’ll have to see whether there are any complications and how well I am before I commit.
In the meantime, I’m trying to look into whether there are any benefits in doing my transplant privately. I’d get the same treatment I think, and at the same hospital, but possibly sooner and even more importantly, I think I’d be guaranteed a private room. I was lucky at the Marsden last time. Because we had young children they were able to give me a single room from day one (I also suffered from sickness and diarrhoea from day 1 so would have been put in a single room anyway). But that isn’t guaranteed a second time round and it does worry me. It’s not nice sharing private intimate details with strangers (other than on a blog of course 
). So I’ve asked my consultant if it’s something worth looking into and we’ll go from there.