Hi Meerkat,

Thanks for the update. I do love you positive attitude and sense of humour. Sorry to read you are going to lose so much of "You". That's good news that the hospital has organised a pre op assessment so quickly to enable you to have a holiday. You do seem to have some lovely colleagues organising a sponsored walk for your cancer hospital. 

I am not at all surprised that you feel to quote your words "A bit all over the place".

Wishing you all the best for tomorrow. Best wishes, Brian.

Hi Meerkat,

Thanks for the update. I do love you positive attitude and sense of humour. Sorry to read you are going to lose so much of "You". That's good news that the hospital has organised a pre op assessment so quickly to enable you to have a holiday. You do seem to have some lovely colleagues organising a sponsored walk for your cancer hospital. 

I am not at all surprised that you feel to quote your words "A bit all over the place".

Wishing you all the best for tomorrow. Best wishes, Brian.

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your message of good luck for today! Wow! What a lengthy appointment! And as for the blood test . . . I swear they took an armful!

My blood pressure was raised so I had to have a heart trace to make sure that it was only 'white coat' syndrome!

You're right about my lovely colleagues. Cancer has affected other members of staff where I work too and it impacts on everyone! So this is their way of giving something back to the charity hospital who helped me!

Well, the sun is shining here so I'm off to lift a few plants out of a border as we've got some fencers in tomorrow and I don't fancy the plants chances much!

You take care, best wishes, Meerkat x

Hi Meerkat,

You made me laugh about the white coat syndrome. Also With regard to the blood test I feel sure they have tamed vampires the amount of blood they take some times.

Glad to here you have seen the sun. It has been overcast here this afternoon.

Take care and sending best wishes to you both, Brian

Hi Brian,

Your comment about the tamed vampires made me chuckle! Especially as the band (tourniquet?) that they put on your arm to 'pump' your veins up prior to blood letting had a cartoon Dracula and Transylvanian style castle on it! Very appropriate!

Have you suffered any recent bouts of Brianitus or is your wife 'managing' your condition?

Best wishes, Meerkat x

Hi Meerkat,

Thanks for the reply. A friend of mine always refers to the area they take bloods as the vampires den. I thought that someone had a good sense of humour with the cartoon you mentioned. This does help put us at ease with just something simple, bit not all doctors have a sense of humour. When I was diagnosed with  prostate cancer they also found I was diabetic and had high cholesterol. So I said to this GP as I have got three at once, do I get the third item for free and he just gave me such a look as to say he thought I was a blithering idiot. Yet the girls in the radiotherapy dept were always laughing and joking and it was so nice. One day I went in for my treatment and usually there were only two young women in there, but this day there were four of them. So I said, why this red carpet treatment for me today and one of them replied, not at all Brian, we've heard you have been misbehaving so we've called up reinforcements. I can only say I had been on my best behaviour, honest.

I have had a bout of Brianitus today as a big bag of crisps was found in our trolley. My wife tries hard to manage it but without a lot of sucess I'm afraid.

Hope you get your holiday sorted out and that you have a great time. Take care, best wishes, Brian