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Yesterday turned out to be a bit tougher than I thought it'd be, any of my friends'l tell you when I get real tired I'm pretty terrible to be around and having not slept for ages and having a cracking headache all day I really was feeling bad. I should have tried harder to get some sleep but for some reason I just sat around watching TV and trying to read this information they'd given me on these ALL clinical trials.…

They discharged me yesterday! Great news, it's good to be back home, though its a big shock to the system having to do all the pills and stuff yourself, still on the steroids and some others to protect me from some of the chemo side-effects. But it is very good to be home. Didn't have to go in for chemo today either, but I did have to do to the ENT department to get my hearing checked out, been feeling a lot of pressure…

It's been pretty quiet since Christmas really, they only do chemo and that in office hours by the sounds of it so I haven't had anything done at all. The odd anti-fungal drip and bag of blood but really it's been very quiet. I'm feeling really good, getting tired a lot but that's probably more from just not actually doing a hell of a lot, just laying around in bed, plus I keep waking up at just after 5AM, wide awake and…

So it's coming to the end of Boxing Day, been my first Christmas in Hospital and it's been alright. My sisters, my parents and my girlfriend were all here Christmas day. Yeah it was nice, naturally being ill I got spoilt rotten, got myself a brand new digital camera, clothes, DVDs, books, parents gave me some money to buy myself some dumbbell's and weights etc... start working off some of this excess food I crave from…

All of yesterday and the majority of today was pretty relaxing, had friends and family come to visit, a few drips, injections and blood tests but nothing really major. Today however they wanted to get my chest echo, my intramuscular injection and another intrathecal injection done. My programme does outline only three intrathecal's (that's the ones straight in to the fluid that surrounds the spine and the brain) but…