A very satisfactory day today with Prof. Gribben at The London Clinic, apart from the start. We got there half an hour early for the appointment and he was a whole hour late. But we filled in some of the time with a guided tour of the facilities so that wasn't as bad as it might have been.
We now have some definite dates in the diary. I start four days of self-administered GCSF injections on March 7th to get stem cells out of my bone marrow and into the general circulation. Then we have the three days of March 11th, 12th, and 13th earmarked for the harvesting process - it may take just one day to get enough stem cells for two transplants if I'm lucky, the others are reserve dates in case I don't. And then it will be all ready to go for the transplant, but the date for that will obviously depend on room availability and is not predictable at this distance.
We also fitted in a chest X-ray and an ECG, and by that time we were way behind the expected time for getting home, so we had another Pizza Express pit-stop (not pizzas this time!) before heading for home and got back about 21:20. The GCSF injections are now safely in the fridge.
So that's another notch on the reality stick. The dates are in the diary, it's no longer somewhere in the indefinite future, the next stage is on the way.
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