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Cancer 173
Posted on February 7, 2025 Leave a Comment
I am in hospital for my consultant meeting prior to restarting my chemotherapy. I have had six weeks off, six weeks where we have been away three times, attempting to take advantage of the time. We went to the Netherlands, Yorkshire and Shropshire. All good, but I am exhausted. Holidays are supposed to be restful. […]
Cancer 172
Posted on February 3, 2025 Leave a Comment
I am continuously conscious of my limitations in life, my inability to do things I used to find easy, my slowness, my lack of energy, my failure to get up and do, how I look at a job that needs doing and don’t do it, how my lethargy ensures a lack of action. It is […]
Cancer 171
Posted on January 29, 2025 Leave a Comment
As I blindly live my life, trying to be oblivious to what is going on inside my body, because I could not cope with reality, I sometimes see through the curtains to the real world and realise there are a lot fo changes occuring in my body, and they are not good ones. While away […]
Cancer 170
Posted on January 26, 2025 Leave a Comment
How many emotions and viewpoints can a person hold at one go? I am both optimistic about life and pessimistic. I feel my health is reasonably good and terribly bad. I am in pain and I am not in pain. I look forward to the future and there is no future. Orwell was right in […]
Cancer 169
Posted on January 13, 2025 Leave a Comment
In line with my, admittedly ridiculous, theory that I can’t die while in the middle of reading a book therefore I should focus on reading long books, I have just started War and Peace. I have read it three times, so I know the story pretty well. It is one of my favourite books. Of […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 