EP0057-201 Phase 2A Trial - Cycle 3, Day 15, sixth infusion day - 6 January 2022
Happy New Year! Cannulation first time of trying! Probably all down to Nurse Mimi and a small needle, but just possibly a successful experiment in drinking hot choc just before pour encourager les veines. Looking back, the transfusion did improve my oxygenation a lot.Speaking relatively, I sailed up North Hill on my way to have bloods taken a week later. Still slow, still in lowest gear but the steam train impression was more of preparing to draw out of Paddington rather than going full pelt on the straight broad gauge to Bristol. (I understand I. K. Brunel is buried in the family vault in Kensal Green Cemetery - did we know that, West Londoners?) Haemoglobin was 73 before and I took a phone call in Pets At Home from the research nurse which I heard as reporting the after Hb as 203. Later I wondered if she had said something like, 'it's gone up to a hundred and three'. 203 sounds an awful lot when normal reference range fo women is 120-160. I should have b...