Eric Avebury

Eric returned from hospital on Saturday morning, with a large bag of pills of varying kinds and various appointments for follow-up clinics, ...

Eric is improving all the time. On Thursday, he and his catheter parted company, to Eric’s great relief. In the search for the suspected ble...

Eric’s surgeon, Mr M, reports that biopsies of material taken from Eric during his recent operation show that his tumour was a MALToma, whic...

Eric, recuperating in Victoria & Albert Ward, King's College Hospital, SE5, on Tuesday, 25th April, 2006.

Eric has improved greatly. Today all his monitoring tubes were disconnected. He sat up in a chair early this morning for 1 ½ hours. Th...

Eric is making progress. His blood pressure, heart rate and oxygen levels are good. He is eating well enough and has stood up twice today, w...

Eric much better today. All stats normal, ie blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen etc. Surgeon Mr M. visited and was pleased with Eric's...

Eric was quite unwell this morning. His heart rate was too fast and he had trouble breathing. His blood pressure was very low. Doctors gave...

Eric is making slow but sure progress. All tubes out on the 20th, including the epidural. His blood pressure is on the low side and he’s fee...

Eric's operation is over and he is recovering well. Dr M reports that he has removed all of the tumour. He says that he found no lung ca...

I was supposed to be at the hospital at 14.00, but we had to have a last game of ping-pong, 2-2, and on the series we think I'm one game...

No real news from the PET scan yesterday. The procedure involves an injection with Fluorine 18 labelled glucose analogue, which is taken up ...

Mr M has now decided to go ahead and remove the lymphoma (?) next Tuesday, and at the same time take a sample of bone marrow. The risk is 2-...