Yes, I am still alive

Oops, once again I've been outrageously inefficient. Well, make that lazy. In all honesty there's been very little to report in the medical world of dave weston, which is a damned fine thing. The itch comes and goes, the sleep is generally fine, most days are just not a problem at all. I'm learning to manage it. The biggest factor affecting everything is sleep - a few decent nights sleep in a row with not too much on in the day and it makes all the difference - much more so than anything I eat or drink.

Dancing is going really well. Leah and I get on like a house on fire (we're both intensely immature, and share lots of interests), and our competition results are beginning to look up. We're just looking at updating some of our choreography as our first efforts were a little dull/one-dimensional. That'll hopefully move things on a bit more.

My flat is great (leaky boiler issues aside). Tim has moved out of my spare room now, and I'm still lodgerless but vaguely looking to find someone who I'll get on with. On the work front I gave up teaching at Camden but I'm now doing 2 days a week back at Watford Boys, though this time its all IT/data work, rather than teaching. I'm still up in Oxford every week helping out there, and I'm working on making some websites for friends and family.

It does seem bizarre that its around 2 years since Mum died. It really doesn't feel like that long, in some ways, though in others it feels like a lifetime - can't really explain it. Surely the most significant thing in the time since has been the arrival of my wonderful nephew Patrick. I do try and see him at least once a fortnight and he's now crawling and I'm sure on the verge of talking. He's 13 months old now, which is hard to believe! I've started telling him how much he's grown. Sad.

I've been keeping up with information on the dreaded P.S.C. via an email support group I signed up to. There's some interesting new theories out there, and some new drugs coming through that look good. Still, the holy grail will be for someone to be able to do something clever with stem cells to grow healthy liver cells. I think that's probably at least 20 years off yet, but I'm happy to hold out while they figure it out!

I'm quite happy to have nothing to report. Long may it continue. I'm seeing O'Grady at the end of next month, and I'm sure it will be business as usual.

Hope you're all well!