04.13.07
Another nice motor!
Denise had one of her B.N.I friends pop over this afternoon in his new-to-him ten year old Jag. I got to snap a photo before he left. I’d love to see how it performs against the car James had for the day.
03.17.07
Comfortably numb, just call me Zebedee
Today sure had it’s ups and downs.
My mate James popped over just after lunch with some more films for me to watch. He’s a top bloke, you’d be hard pushed to find someone nicer. We sat in the kitchen chatting for a while, talking about how things were at work and life in general. I love my family, but having a chat with James was a refreshing change.
He’d driven over in a car he borrowed from his flat mate as his motorbike was out of action. It’s a nice motor, even if James had to fold himself up like a piece of origami to get in it 
I’d love to do some studio shots of it when I’m better.
Since Friday I’ve had an odd cold feeling in my lower back. After James left, my wife called out from the office saying that she had a letter for me. It was from Mr Khawaja. I don’t know how long it took to sign and post, but it was dated the 9th. On opening it I thought it was just a CC of a letter to the office. Then I noticed the extra letter at the back.
“.. the CT scan has revealed an ill defined lytic lesion in the body of D9 vertebrae. On balance, I believe you should have a bone scan to rule out a significant pathology there. ..”
Where is the D9? The only diagrams I can find show the C/T/L or C/T/L/S/C vertebrae. My sister says it may be a typo, S and D are next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard. But the sacrum only has 5 fused bones, not 9 or more. Other simpler diagrams class the sacrum and coccyx together as a fourth group, which would make D9 the very end of my coccyx, as it has 4 fused bones. [Update: The D9 is around the 'middle' of the back, between hips and shoulders.]
I’ll let you do your own Google searches on “lytic lesion”, but the first entry we got back was “lytic lesion: Destruction of an area of bone due to a disease process, such as cancer.” Having had a radiography report questioning Lymphoma, I could do without this right now. Better get the tests done ASAP and rule it out.
My parents came over for an early Mothers Day dinner at the new Don Giovanni Brasseria (BR2 9LB), just around the corner from our house. We had a great meal, it’s well worth a visit if you’re in the area. I’d only asked for a glass of white wine, but the waiter left the bottle. I ended up drinking most of the bottle on my own. It did more to releave the fatigue than all the Ibuprofen and Paracetamol I’ve been taking these past weeks.
So now I’ve got a bone scan, better known as a radionuclide scan, to look forward to. That will bring my set of scan types up to three. At least it shouldn’t be as bad as the CT scan.