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Back to the Future Part II | 13th May 2007, 22:39  
Scene 8 - August 2006 - Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton
Where Jim spends the night in the Surgical Assessment Unit before being moved to the Digestive Diseases Ward. Jim is proded and poked by the Seventh Doctor and his companions, who diagnose Crohn's Disease and, after performing an oesophagogastroduodenoscopy and a painful colonoscopy, some chronic gastritis. Jim is told to keep taking lanzoprazole, and after a week's stay in hospital is sent home.

Scene 9 - September 2006 - Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton
Where Jim returns for a clinic appointment with the Eighth Doctor. Said Doctor prods and pokes Jim a little and decides he can feel something odd, and orders Jim back into hospital. After spending a few hours on a trolley in A&E, Jim is moved back to the Surgical Assessment Unit, and then back to Digestive Diseases.

Jim suffers a fluoroscopy examination, which involves starving him overnight and then forcing him to drink a litre of barium solution and then taking x-rays every ten minutes while it makes its way through his digestive system. This discovers a blockage in the small intestine.

Finally the Eighth Doctor orders a CT scan, which finally reveals several tumours in Jim's abdomen, liver and lungs and a large blood clot in the Inferior Vena Cava. Jim is given a private room, and tinzaparin for the blood clot, while the Ninth Doctor is called.

The Ninth Doctor had cool glasses, and diagnosed Jim immediately based on the results of blood tests as having testicular cancer. He arranged transfer to:

Scene 10 - Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
Where Jim was subjected to many blood tests, kidney function tests, hearing tests. Jim was also briefly sent to:

Scene 11 - Hammersmith Hospital, Hammersmith
To make a deposit in their sperm bank, before returning to:

Scene 12 - Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
For a rather nasty course of chemotherapy (CBOP/BEP), prescribed by the Tenth Doctor and the First and Second Professors. Jim remained here for about six weeks, undergoing said chemo, before finally being permitted to return home.

Scenes 13 to 21 - Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
Jim had to return every Friday for blood tests, a clinic appointment, and a top up of chemotherapy. Every third week he would have to stay for a week-long course of chemo.

Scene 22 - 5th January 2007 - Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
Jim had his final dose of chemotherapy, and was permitted to start recovering, with regular (but becoming less frequent) visits to the clinic for blood tests.

Scene 23 - February 2007 - Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
One of the Second Professor's companions says that Jim can stop having tinziparin injections every day (as administered by Ashley) and can begin taking Warfarin instead.

Scene 24 - 27th April 2007 - Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
Jim sees the First Surgeon in clinic, who, having seen a new CT scan, informs Jim that he is now fit enough and hairy enough to be ready to start the procedures for his operation to remove the ex-tumour by his stomach and possibly the blood clot. Jim is referred to:

Scene 25 - 1st May 2007 - Royal Brompton Hospital, Chelsea
Where he stays for three nights, to experience an MRI scan and a TOE scan. He meets the Second Surgeon. On the 4th May, the Second Surgeon sends Jim home again, saying he will discuss Jim's case with the First Surgeon and the Second Professor to decide the what, how, who, when and where of the operation.

Scene 26 - 13th May 2007 - Haywards Heath
Where Jim is sitting painlessly in bed typing a blog entry.
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