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Cancer 198
Posted on June 24, 2025 Leave a Comment
I am not going to provide detail with this one, suffice to say that yesterday started well and ended badly. I was at hospital again in the morning. That is Thurs, Fri, Mon, Tues, Fri, Mon, with the two off days being chemo bottle days. After the hospital it was a walk with the kids. […]
Cancer 197
Posted on June 21, 2025 Leave a Comment
I have read quite a lot of Holocaust literature. The subject fascinates me, as it reveals some of the worst and best aspects of human behaviour. Currently, I am reading Jozcef Debreczeni’s Cold Crematorium. Written just after the war by a Hungarian journalist who lived in Vojvodina, now part of Serbia. The book was largely […]
Cancer 196
Posted on June 17, 2025 Leave a Comment
I never did like roller coasters. Not that I have been on a real one, only the physical and emotional one that I am living through right now. Things have changed since my last post. Instead of moving on to the new (and final) treatment I am remaining on the original treatment, as the cancer […]
Cancer 195
Posted on June 13, 2025 Leave a Comment
I have decided that, assuming this is the final phase, that I should see it as an adventure, the last adventure. Why should dying not be an adventure? Lots of big adventures end with death, though usually they are not inevitable, so exploring the process of bodily decay and shutdown is my adventure. Today I […]
Cancer 194
Posted on June 9, 2025 1 Comment
It isn’t looking good. It is getting worse by the week. The bastards are growing inside me. This is the last day of our holiday. I am writing from a Swedish cafe in Grasmere. I have a blood test on Thursday, usual consultant on Friday and radiotherapy consultant on Monday. Perhaps a combination of drugs […]
