Leaving the Clinic - the Final Morning

On the evening of 9th April, my partner Helen was due to arrive in Moscow and to come to the clinic to visit me. After 30 days without seeing her in the flesh, this was something I was really looking forward to. However, as fate would have it, her flight from London was cancelled and she had to get an evening flight that meant that she arrived at the hotel Vega at 05:30 on the morning of April 10th. She managed to couple of hours in bed for having to get herself together and come and visit me in the clinic.

When she did arrive, dressed in all her blue clinical overrobes, it was still fantastic to see her. She was able to look around my room and see it for real having seen it so often on the videos that I have been recording. After a short wait and look around the clinic, we finally got to see fellow Dr Fedorenko in his office for his final debrief.

My Final infusions & Some Rituximab

Now I am at the final stages of the treatments that I'll be getting at the clinic in Russia. After isolation finishes, there are some final infusions to be taken as well as a dose of rituximab whose job, I believe, is to kill off those last immune cells that might clone themselves and come back to haunt you.

In the video below, I continue to talk about my stats amongst other things. One things, which I'll talk about in the next blog post, that I mentioned in the video is transferring money out to the bank account in Hong Kong to pay for the treatment. This can be quite a headache and, as mentioned, I will explain why.

As ever, please subscribe to my videos!

Out of Isolation

Today was an important day because isolation ended for me. I was in and out into the world of other humans – into the communal area outside of my door to meet with some of my other clinic friends. It was good to see Frank in person and see how he got on. It was just nice to be out, even though I strangely enjoyed being in isolation!

In this video, I also continue to look at the statistics of my haemoglobin, leucocytes and platelets. I also talk about the things that I can use again, such as a toothbrush and toothpaste and other simple things we take for granted in life.

As ever, please subscribe to my videos!

Almost out of Iso; Hair Loss; More Stats!

So here I am almost out of isolation and things are progressing nicely. My stats are superstar stats and are following exactly did trajectory that the doctors were wanting. Dr Federenko was particularly happy with where my bloods and my leukocytes were. I couldn't have been happier with my physiological progress.

As well as speaking about stats, I get to show you what hair loss looks like, especially when cleaning your head in the way that you are supposed to. Get ready for another update!

As ever, please subscribe to my videos!

Isolation day 7; Things to Bring to the Clinic!

One more day in isolation and you wouldn't think I'd have that much to talk about. Well, you wouldn't know me very well then… Here, I give you some more stats and information about isolation but then devote quite a lot of time to telling you useful things that you need to bring with you to the clinic. Hopefully, this is an interesting as well as informative video for you!

As ever, please subscribe to my videos!

Isolation Day 6

Here we advance along to basics of isolation and I get to show you some charts and figures. Everyone likes to look at stats, right? I hear, I talk about all things isolation, including how I am physically and mentally feeling as runners the things I'm doing such as continuing to take my supplements, contacting my family back at home and all the usual things that you would expect people to do was stuck in isolation in a clinic.

As ever, please subscribe to my videos!

Isolation

Isolation. That word. Those 10 days.

Hey, it's not that bad. You get to hang around the same four walls for 10 days but you get used to it. In fact, I quite enjoyed it. I had enough technology and enough things to keep me entertained. Isolation wasn't a problem. It whizzed past and before I knew it it was over. You get your nurses barging in and giving you injections and infusions and this and that. So that's all pretty normal. And you get to talk to your loved ones and family back at home on social media and Skype and whatnot. And you can even talk to your fellow isolationists and patients at the clinic through social media. So, really, it's not that bad.

As ever, please subscribe to my videos!