Up to Guys

Off to the hospital again today. They're going to do a couple more tests. Think I mentioned before that things aren't going as they should be. A test had shown that my meds are working but the illness isn't clearing up ... not getting any worse but not getting any better either so I'm going to have a couple more biopsies for the lab to have a look at.

They've reduced one of the meds. I said that I'd spent a lot of time outside and I'd been in the tropics too but they don't think this is affecting what is and what isn't happening now though it has been suggested that this condition can be brought on by the sun.

They are going to try the other treatment without the prednisolone, apparently it should be alright. There's no way I can have it with the steroid infusions .. it will make it much easier too. I suppose they mightv wait til I've had the biopsies. I'm going to be adding a new clinic to the list of ones I visit there. Things aren't running quite as smoothly as they'd hoped. I think my doc was very relieved that I already knew .. Dr Charles Holmes had already told me in Warwick and the tests here just confirmed it. Meant that he didn't have to be the one to bring it up ... I mentioned it and said that Dr C.H had told me.

It's good that the pills can be reduced. Someone wondered if the pills themselves might be causing problems .. after all they make you susceptible to developing skin cancer so maybe they were helping in some ways while causing problems in others. Who knows but nothing happened when they were reduced before which means the condition was still under control ... though this wasn't being translated into how I'm healing. So more biopsies to try and see just what is happening.

Was saying today that it was sad that computers couldn't open the world to us in the way they can today and how I wished we'd had them .. but really the best thing to have happened over the years is the advance in medicine. And that it'll keep growing.