...I have found out how to add followers all on my own. Aren't I clever?!?
Lots of love, laughter and smiles,
XXX
Saturday, 29 January 2011
I'm a geek...and so PROUD to be one.
Well my little bloglets,
Guess what?!?!?! I got.....wait for it..... 76% in my chemistry test!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S A FIRST (as in an academic 1st, rather than a first. Although it was also a first. Still with me? Good.) WOOP! Lets hope I continue to get test and exam results like that from now one. (I did however only get 52% in the chemistry essay, but I didn't really know what I was talking about which is apparent in the result). I also got 60-something % in my biology essay, so am very happy with that. There was a rather amusing comment at the end which was along the lines of 'you are an humanities student aren't you?' as my scientific writing style is not that great....
I was also about to put something else in here and I can't remember...ummmm....oh yes. How do I get followers? I was just looking at another blog and on the right had side there is the option to 'follow'. I want followers, so can someone who knows let me know how I can get that on here. Thank you! Or actually, do I want that option because if no one follows this I'll look like I have no mates and am tragically sad and unloved. Hmmmm.......the difficulties I have to deal with on a day to day basis.
I have once again pestered my consultant to let me know the PCR result, and still haven't heard back from her. I'm also waiting to hear from her if my PCT (Primary Care Trust) will pay for my eggs to be frozen this year, because if not the price has gone UP to £300 for the year. Excellent.
Right, can't think of anything else to ramble on about. There are two new videos up at wew.jimmyteens.tv which are the usual high standard of wittyness that you have become used to. Here are the links so you don't have to go and find them because I AM that nice.
This one is about education and my rant (just for a chance) about my DOS (director of studies) and how shite he was that was done for a live debate that I couldn't get up to in Sheffield:
http://www.jimmyteens.tv/2011/01/29/katie-talks-education-part-one/
This one is me interviewing my friend Toni
http://www.jimmyteens.tv/2011/01/09/katie-toni/
Enjoy!!
Lots of love, smiles and laughter (maybe I should change that to giggles as I'm such a giggler. Thoughts please...)
XXX
Guess what?!?!?! I got.....wait for it..... 76% in my chemistry test!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S A FIRST (as in an academic 1st, rather than a first. Although it was also a first. Still with me? Good.) WOOP! Lets hope I continue to get test and exam results like that from now one. (I did however only get 52% in the chemistry essay, but I didn't really know what I was talking about which is apparent in the result). I also got 60-something % in my biology essay, so am very happy with that. There was a rather amusing comment at the end which was along the lines of 'you are an humanities student aren't you?' as my scientific writing style is not that great....
I was also about to put something else in here and I can't remember...ummmm....oh yes. How do I get followers? I was just looking at another blog and on the right had side there is the option to 'follow'. I want followers, so can someone who knows let me know how I can get that on here. Thank you! Or actually, do I want that option because if no one follows this I'll look like I have no mates and am tragically sad and unloved. Hmmmm.......the difficulties I have to deal with on a day to day basis.
I have once again pestered my consultant to let me know the PCR result, and still haven't heard back from her. I'm also waiting to hear from her if my PCT (Primary Care Trust) will pay for my eggs to be frozen this year, because if not the price has gone UP to £300 for the year. Excellent.
Right, can't think of anything else to ramble on about. There are two new videos up at wew.jimmyteens.tv which are the usual high standard of wittyness that you have become used to. Here are the links so you don't have to go and find them because I AM that nice.
This one is about education and my rant (just for a chance) about my DOS (director of studies) and how shite he was that was done for a live debate that I couldn't get up to in Sheffield:
http://www.jimmyteens.tv/2011/01/29/katie-talks-education-part-one/
This one is me interviewing my friend Toni
http://www.jimmyteens.tv/2011/01/09/katie-toni/
Enjoy!!
Lots of love, smiles and laughter (maybe I should change that to giggles as I'm such a giggler. Thoughts please...)
XXX
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
4 Years Today!!!!
Well my faithful little followers,
I can't believe that 4 years ago today I received 'that' phone call from the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and this little journey began. This is not going to be a maudlin or angry post because I'm not. Today is a happy day and I can honestly tell you that as I type this in a cafe on the Tottenham Court Road, where I am doing my Biology revision, I am looking past over everything I've been through and am doing it with a smile.
I have met many wonderful people, learnt and experienced many wonderful things that I otherwise would not have. And for this, I can not be anything but grateful. I have learnt who I am, and admittedly other than the few kilos I want to lose, I am comfortable with me. I know my downfalls, and yes peeps, I am not perfect, and know it, BUT I'm still pretty fucking fab!
The past 4 years have been an opportunity to learn and develop and I think I have grasped it with both hands and have made me a better person.
I also want to say a massive thank you to you all. For all the support, encouragement and love I have had from everyone has been outstanding, and I am truly lucky to have you all in my life. And I would like to mention especially my little Mummy. Without her it would have been very different, and the wisdom she has is unbelievable, the hours she spent researching diet and alternative treatment whilst working like a maniac is truly inspiring. Also, my Daddy aka Kevla, my big sister Claudia and by little 'big' brother Milo. You have all been incredible and a better family and support group couldn't be found. I love you all with all of my heart.
So I should really get back to my revision now...and fingers crossed that this is the year when I return to 'normality' and that I get the Leukaemic rate down to 0.00%.
With so much love, laughter and smiles,
XXX
I can't believe that 4 years ago today I received 'that' phone call from the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and this little journey began. This is not going to be a maudlin or angry post because I'm not. Today is a happy day and I can honestly tell you that as I type this in a cafe on the Tottenham Court Road, where I am doing my Biology revision, I am looking past over everything I've been through and am doing it with a smile.
I have met many wonderful people, learnt and experienced many wonderful things that I otherwise would not have. And for this, I can not be anything but grateful. I have learnt who I am, and admittedly other than the few kilos I want to lose, I am comfortable with me. I know my downfalls, and yes peeps, I am not perfect, and know it, BUT I'm still pretty fucking fab!
The past 4 years have been an opportunity to learn and develop and I think I have grasped it with both hands and have made me a better person.
I also want to say a massive thank you to you all. For all the support, encouragement and love I have had from everyone has been outstanding, and I am truly lucky to have you all in my life. And I would like to mention especially my little Mummy. Without her it would have been very different, and the wisdom she has is unbelievable, the hours she spent researching diet and alternative treatment whilst working like a maniac is truly inspiring. Also, my Daddy aka Kevla, my big sister Claudia and by little 'big' brother Milo. You have all been incredible and a better family and support group couldn't be found. I love you all with all of my heart.
So I should really get back to my revision now...and fingers crossed that this is the year when I return to 'normality' and that I get the Leukaemic rate down to 0.00%.
With so much love, laughter and smiles,
XXX
Monday, 10 January 2011
And the biology revision has started
Well my little bloglets,
I have all but one of my blood results so thought I'd whack them on here. Also my revision has officially started for an upcoming Biology test. You would think from my attitude towards it that it was a massively important final. It is not. In fact is is a very short, 1 hour in class test, but as I did, ummm, well..... NO work for Biology last term, well other than the essay, and go to all the lectures, I didn't go over notes etc so know sweet fuck all! Due to this am a little bit scared about the test as there is SO MUCH TO KNOW!!! All these words that I can't pronounce, let alone spell, and the cells have so many different things in them, and an animal cell is different to a plant cell and AGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! (oh, well if that question comes up, I will get one mark! Woop!) At least I understand everything, so it is just remembering it, rather than with chemistry where I had to teach myself some stuff before the test. I do however have time, so as long as I keep off the internet other than to download the lecture notes and to look things up that I don't know, I will be fine. However today I have been 'revising' since midday, it is now 3 o'clock and I have only taken notes from 2 pages of A4. I have on the other hand looked into the new camera I will be buying this week, added another couple of albums to my amazon basket, and checked facebook, ooh, about every 5 mins. Luckily for me, there are others in my position, so there are lots of things to comment on to keep me amused. Oh, and of course I am now on here.
So I should probably let you know my results and piss off to do some work....
White count, 4
Haemoglobin 12.7
Platelets 112
I don't get the PCR (Leukaemic rate) for a week which is tres annoying as it's the only one I really care about. As you can see the Platelets have dropped from 160 to 112 (little fuckers) but they are still quite high, so that's all good.
I also feel that I should mention something else at this point. I went out for a friends birthday on Saturday night and was sitting next to a guy who raises money for Leuka by doing stupid things like cycling 1,000km over the alps!! (Fucking idiot!) Now, some of you might be thinking and.... Well the mental thing is that Leuka is a charity set up by someone who was a patient at my clinic and it's a charity just for my clinic!!! How crazy is that?!?! For all the people in London to be sitting next to each other. Must have been fate! He has also met my consultant. So that all ties in nicely to this blog.
Right, really should sod off and do some more biology, the problem is that a) I can't be arsed and b) I have just had lunch, so all I want to do is sleep..... Bugger, just though of something to add, aggrrr, ummm, oh yes. Well you know how I am always cold?!? Actually that has made me think if I've moaned about it on here, maybe not...anyways, check out the AMAZING sleeping bag suit my sister got me for Christmas so I can be nice and toasty in my flat. And also, so how photographic I am. I should definitely be a model!
Lots of love, laughter and smiles as ever,
XXX
I have all but one of my blood results so thought I'd whack them on here. Also my revision has officially started for an upcoming Biology test. You would think from my attitude towards it that it was a massively important final. It is not. In fact is is a very short, 1 hour in class test, but as I did, ummm, well..... NO work for Biology last term, well other than the essay, and go to all the lectures, I didn't go over notes etc so know sweet fuck all! Due to this am a little bit scared about the test as there is SO MUCH TO KNOW!!! All these words that I can't pronounce, let alone spell, and the cells have so many different things in them, and an animal cell is different to a plant cell and AGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! (oh, well if that question comes up, I will get one mark! Woop!) At least I understand everything, so it is just remembering it, rather than with chemistry where I had to teach myself some stuff before the test. I do however have time, so as long as I keep off the internet other than to download the lecture notes and to look things up that I don't know, I will be fine. However today I have been 'revising' since midday, it is now 3 o'clock and I have only taken notes from 2 pages of A4. I have on the other hand looked into the new camera I will be buying this week, added another couple of albums to my amazon basket, and checked facebook, ooh, about every 5 mins. Luckily for me, there are others in my position, so there are lots of things to comment on to keep me amused. Oh, and of course I am now on here.
So I should probably let you know my results and piss off to do some work....
White count, 4
Haemoglobin 12.7
Platelets 112
I don't get the PCR (Leukaemic rate) for a week which is tres annoying as it's the only one I really care about. As you can see the Platelets have dropped from 160 to 112 (little fuckers) but they are still quite high, so that's all good.
I also feel that I should mention something else at this point. I went out for a friends birthday on Saturday night and was sitting next to a guy who raises money for Leuka by doing stupid things like cycling 1,000km over the alps!! (Fucking idiot!) Now, some of you might be thinking and.... Well the mental thing is that Leuka is a charity set up by someone who was a patient at my clinic and it's a charity just for my clinic!!! How crazy is that?!?! For all the people in London to be sitting next to each other. Must have been fate! He has also met my consultant. So that all ties in nicely to this blog.
Right, really should sod off and do some more biology, the problem is that a) I can't be arsed and b) I have just had lunch, so all I want to do is sleep..... Bugger, just though of something to add, aggrrr, ummm, oh yes. Well you know how I am always cold?!? Actually that has made me think if I've moaned about it on here, maybe not...anyways, check out the AMAZING sleeping bag suit my sister got me for Christmas so I can be nice and toasty in my flat. And also, so how photographic I am. I should definitely be a model!
Lots of love, laughter and smiles as ever,
XXX
Friday, 7 January 2011
Just because you are wearing wellies does NOT make you invinceble
Well Happy 2011 my little bloglets!
Can you believe that in a couple of weeks I will have been doing this blog for 4 years?!?! I can't! Time has flown by at a stupidly fast rate, and I also, to be honest without making you think that I a) don't like this blog or b) don't like you, I didn't think I would still be blogging 4 years down the line STILL waiting for the right results... Anyways, before I go off on a massively maudlin ramble I shall write about what I was going to.
So, my title today are a few words of wisdom, and had I heeded them I wouldn't have ended up falling into a pond in Oxford's University Parks on New Year's Day. However, I did not, and felt like I had superhuman powers, so behaved like an idiot and got my comeuppance. It was rather amusing for everyone else, not so much for me.....
And I'll tell you how it happened before you think I just jumped in....
I was staying with a friend from uni, Toni, in Oxford and the Stockwell's have 3 dogs and live right by Uni Parks, so we took them for a walk. I borrowed Toni's wellies as I didn't have any dog walking appropriate shoes with me. The walk took us past the ponds and I went to look at the ice on them, and thought I'd see if it would break if I placed my right foot on it. It didn't and was actually pretty thick, so I put more weight on my foot. Now this was the error. Around the edge of the pond, the ice had melted, so as I put more weight on, it didn't break, but tipped under the water and my foot slid in. So I didn't properly fall in, but on leg was soaked up to my hip and my other leg was pretty wet too. However, the plus point was, as the water was so fucking cold I moved pretty damn quickly, or more of me might have ended up in the pond.... And yes, I was the oldest of our group going for walk, and yes, I was the only one who thought it would be fun to play with the ice on the pond....
So what else was I going to mention? I had my check up yesterday and the clinic was HEAVING! I was also once again the youngest, and actually the clinic yesterday made me think of God's waiting room in Edinburgh, not because everyone had a wheelie Oxygen tank, but because it was so busy and everyone was so much older then me. I was there for 3 hours and when I got round to seeing my consultant she discovered that the blood technician for the clinic had gone to lunch and my blood hadn't even bee processed....J-O-Y!
I am going to be emailed them, so will hopefully get the today at some point. Getting weighed yesterday was another joy. I've only put on shit loads of weight over Christmas, so the diet, well my change in eating habits has officially started, and I'm running regularly again. I'm feeling very proud of myself as I went for a run today in the pissing rain, and you know what? It really wasn't that bad. Admittedly I spent a small fortune on a waterproof/keep me warm running jacket yesterday, but there is no way I will run in the rain unless I can keep my torso dry. Also, I will be marathon training this coming Autumn and Winter so need to get used to running in cold horrible weather and have clothing so I go out and run.
Now I'm sure I had other things to mention, that were witty and amusing, but everything has vacated my mind! Am off in a bit to see my Godfather and to send some healing light his way. The tumour has shrunk which is brilliant, and hopefully it will continue to do so, so his surgery is as short as possible.
I was looking at the stats to this blog and have discovered that people read this not only in the UK, but the USA, Russia, Latvia, Spain, China, Germany, France, Poland, and Sweden. So a massive thank you to all who read it who I don't know. I do appreciate it, and as always, please leave comments.
Lots of love, laughter and light,
XXX
Can you believe that in a couple of weeks I will have been doing this blog for 4 years?!?! I can't! Time has flown by at a stupidly fast rate, and I also, to be honest without making you think that I a) don't like this blog or b) don't like you, I didn't think I would still be blogging 4 years down the line STILL waiting for the right results... Anyways, before I go off on a massively maudlin ramble I shall write about what I was going to.
So, my title today are a few words of wisdom, and had I heeded them I wouldn't have ended up falling into a pond in Oxford's University Parks on New Year's Day. However, I did not, and felt like I had superhuman powers, so behaved like an idiot and got my comeuppance. It was rather amusing for everyone else, not so much for me.....
And I'll tell you how it happened before you think I just jumped in....
I was staying with a friend from uni, Toni, in Oxford and the Stockwell's have 3 dogs and live right by Uni Parks, so we took them for a walk. I borrowed Toni's wellies as I didn't have any dog walking appropriate shoes with me. The walk took us past the ponds and I went to look at the ice on them, and thought I'd see if it would break if I placed my right foot on it. It didn't and was actually pretty thick, so I put more weight on my foot. Now this was the error. Around the edge of the pond, the ice had melted, so as I put more weight on, it didn't break, but tipped under the water and my foot slid in. So I didn't properly fall in, but on leg was soaked up to my hip and my other leg was pretty wet too. However, the plus point was, as the water was so fucking cold I moved pretty damn quickly, or more of me might have ended up in the pond.... And yes, I was the oldest of our group going for walk, and yes, I was the only one who thought it would be fun to play with the ice on the pond....
So what else was I going to mention? I had my check up yesterday and the clinic was HEAVING! I was also once again the youngest, and actually the clinic yesterday made me think of God's waiting room in Edinburgh, not because everyone had a wheelie Oxygen tank, but because it was so busy and everyone was so much older then me. I was there for 3 hours and when I got round to seeing my consultant she discovered that the blood technician for the clinic had gone to lunch and my blood hadn't even bee processed....J-O-Y!
I am going to be emailed them, so will hopefully get the today at some point. Getting weighed yesterday was another joy. I've only put on shit loads of weight over Christmas, so the diet, well my change in eating habits has officially started, and I'm running regularly again. I'm feeling very proud of myself as I went for a run today in the pissing rain, and you know what? It really wasn't that bad. Admittedly I spent a small fortune on a waterproof/keep me warm running jacket yesterday, but there is no way I will run in the rain unless I can keep my torso dry. Also, I will be marathon training this coming Autumn and Winter so need to get used to running in cold horrible weather and have clothing so I go out and run.
Now I'm sure I had other things to mention, that were witty and amusing, but everything has vacated my mind! Am off in a bit to see my Godfather and to send some healing light his way. The tumour has shrunk which is brilliant, and hopefully it will continue to do so, so his surgery is as short as possible.
I was looking at the stats to this blog and have discovered that people read this not only in the UK, but the USA, Russia, Latvia, Spain, China, Germany, France, Poland, and Sweden. So a massive thank you to all who read it who I don't know. I do appreciate it, and as always, please leave comments.
Lots of love, laughter and light,
XXX
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