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Cancer 178
Posted on March 12, 2025 Leave a Comment
It was agony last night. I couldn’t lie down properly. I couldn’t turn onto my right side. This morning, the wife made me take my temperature because she thought it might be pneumonia again. The first reading was 38.5, and I am supposed to ring the hospital if it is over 37.5. Fortunately, two further […]
Cancer 177
Posted on March 11, 2025 Leave a Comment
This is painful. A couple of days ago I started to get severe pain in and around my shoulder. Tramadol alone barely touches it, Tramadol plus paracetamol works for a time. I am sitting writing this in the bathroom of a very nice hotel because I can’t sleep. It is painful to lie on my […]
Cancer 176
Posted on March 6, 2025 Leave a Comment
I had a number of ideas about this blog but the chemobrain means that ideas fall out of my brain like lemmings off a cliff (except lemmings dot do that, do they?). My brain is significantly affected by my treatment, unless the cancer has got to my brain. I wouldn’t know if it has because […]
Cancer 175
Posted on February 27, 2025 Leave a Comment
It was the second anniversary of my sister’s death the other day. I hadn’t realised until I was reminded of it. She died of cancer while I was in the throes of learning that I had a cancer diagnosis and preparing for my operation. I didn’t have time to think or feel much about her […]
Cancer 174
Posted on February 17, 2025 Leave a Comment
My treatment starts on Tuesday. My bloods are all fine, the cancer marker has increased slightly. I still don’t know the outcome of my scan, but if it reflects the look and feelings of my abdomen and bowels then alarm bells will ring. My abdomen is even more misshapen than usual, my innards feel like […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 