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Cancer 269
Posted on August 7, 2026 2 Comments
Why doesn’t this bloody body of mine just accept defeat instead f dragging myself and everyone else along this ever-diminishing path to nowhere? I spend most of my time either sitting in the chair or lying in the bed – day or night makes little difference – doing very little except hopig that my bladder […]
Cancer 268
Posted on July 27, 2026 Leave a Comment
If this isn’t my death bed I don’t know what is. I haven’t moved beyond chair, bed and toilet in days, and have no great inclination to do so. My bowel hardly works, and neither does the urinary system, the latter particularlyat night, and si there is great oressure and pain in the abdomen. I […]
Cancer 267
Posted on July 15, 2026 Leave a Comment
Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse we get the experience of A & E. Before I go any further I must say the staff were brilliant, as they always are at the NHS – it is the patients that are the problem. Last night I had problems passing water. This has been […]
Cancer 266
Posted on July 8, 2026 Leave a Comment
As expected, the meeting with the consultant ended with the decision being no more treatment. The prognosis, such as it is, ie it is impossible to be precise about how long I will live, is an average of 5-6 months; so I might last a month, I might last 9 months. Worryingly, I might see […]
Cancer 265
Posted on July 5, 2026 Leave a Comment
“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far From it.” Cormac McCarthy, Suttree It has been suggested to me that I am frightened […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 