K and her dad came today, which I cannot recollect at all. Hardly surprising I suppose as my memory isn’t very good after the op and I’m writing this up a month later, from my dad’s notes! I wasn’t feeling too bright, so poor old K couldn’t have had much fun. I sort of remember …
Very hot and sunny. In fact so hot my mum tells me that she went home to collect summer clothes and flip flops! She found the under floor heating in Great Ormond Street Hospital too hot as well. A bit of a contrast to 2024, where we seem to have gone back to winter! Mum …
I don’t mention it’s Easter Sunday in my diary, but oddly one memory I do have of this time is repeatedly asking who had given me which Easter Egg! (I had major short term memory loss after the operation, a side effect of craniotomy. Most pituitary operations are transsphenoidal now – up the nose. Please …
I can’t remember this at all, as I’m writing this 4 weeks adrift (May 24th) but I’ve got good old dad’s notes. However I’m afraid the notes are a bit thin for the next few days. Mum and my brother came and I’m feeling okay. I ate well and had good food, which I think …
Still haven’t a clue about the weather but my brother has been recording the temperature for me, at home. Dad says I slept well, which is good isn’t it. Mind you I then got very uncomfortable. Dad arrived at 7 am, he was so good. It’s funny writing all this from dad‘s notes a few …
Still no idea what the weather was like. Mum and dad arrived very early 7:30 am, which was very good of them. I’m still copying dad‘s notes as I haven’t a clue what happened but dad said I was better. I had my first drink of water this morning apparently and then carried on steadily …
1984 Diary Thursday 19th April, Post Hospital Op Read More »
I wasn’t aware of anything for a few days after my operation but my wonderful dad wrote notes for me. My diagnosis was Craniopharyngioma with Cushings, extremely rare and I had a craniotomy to remove the tumour. Copying up from dad‘s notes so I haven’t a clue what the weather was like! I woke up …
1984 Diary Wednesday 18th April, Day of Pituitary Operation Read More »
Quite grey, but it was warm during the day and quite cold in the evening. You’re not going to believe this, but I’m writing this on the 1st of May. I’m also a bit rusty as you can imagine but dad‘s been writing notes for me and I wrote pencilled notes for today. I went …
1984 Diary Tuesday 17th April, Day before Pituitary Operation Read More »
I’m now half way through the 30 days of my childhood diary, to raise awareness of pituitary conditions. If you need any advice The Pituitary Foundation have lots of information and I hope you’re able to donate to them too. Sunny but cool and we had the odd heavy shower. Felt much better today. I …
Greyer today and we had the odd drizzle of rain but not much. It was also cooler. Woke up at 10.15am after a good nights sleep. I was going to do some work this morning but I never really managed to do it. All I did was 5 multi choice questions for chemistry. Generally had …
