Interview with Sarah about Isolation

Isolation is obviously a crucial part of the whole treatment process. It takes anywhere around 10 days and you have to stay within the four walls of your room without leaving it at all. People can deliver food and drink into your room if you make special requests by social media to friends on the outside. But these are specially cleaned down and given antibacterial wipeage so that they are safe to you to consume.

This is an interview that I can gave to Sarah who had been through isolation before us. We were interested in what she experienced and how she found it. Obviously, she is speaking from behind a face mask so you might need to turn the volume up for this one.

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An Interview with a Patient's Mother and a Meal out!

Quite often, the forgotten people in this whole equation are the family members around the patient. It's easy to get wrapped up in the hall treatment and think that everything is about yourself as the patient. But these things have ramifications and effects on other people. It's the families who bear the brunt of the pressures and stresses that embarking on the HSCT journey can bring on.

It's because of this that I thought it would be important to interview a mother of one of the patients (Sarah). Marilyn, she's a Kiwi Australian, so Maz or Mazza, did a great job to put up with my incessant questioning. Here she is in all her glory with her son-in-law Chris helping out at the side.

An Interview with some HSCT Buddies

I'm not averse to giving interviews in the normal blogging that I usually to (I am a geek and I normally blog about philosophy). I thought it would be a good idea to speak to some other HSCT friends about their experiences. Frank was in the room next to me and was receiving HSCT himself whilst Chris was a partner of Sarah who was receiving HSCT and he had done a bunch of research himself. He is a funt of good knowledge.

Patients receiving HSCT is that everyone is always at a different stage. You will get your one or two partners in crime who are aligned with your own treatment. For example, I had Frank and Julie, another Norwegian, who were my HSCT buddies but everyone else in the clinic was that a different stage.

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