A very pleasant change yesterday to get more than walking distance from the house to go to Springfield for the three-weekly blood tests. Chelmsford looked the same as usual, but a lot quieter, and the hospital car parks were fairly full but with plenty of spaces available - usually there are very few.
I entered the Oncology Centre a safe distance behind a couple of the nurses who had walked over from the main building - neither of them wearing any kind of anti-COVID-19 equipment. Upstairs in the treatment area - where as far as I could see there were no other patients - there was everything from nurses with no protection at all through to cleaning staff with everything. I got the impression they were doing a "deep clean" of a couple of the rooms. The nurse who took my blood had gloves, apron, surgical face mask (as I did), and visor.
Now there's a slightly nervous wait for the full results to come through - paraproteins and free light chains will take until the end of this week or probably the start of the next.
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