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Cancer 147

I had a bad night last night. A fever came on in the evening after a rotten day, with abdominal pains. The fever broke in the night so paracetamols did the trick. I ate very little yesterday which should be good for my diet. I still don’t want to eat. That isn’t a good sign […]

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Cancer 146

We are sitting in the Grand Hotel, Amsterdam, having a cup of tea. Tomorrow we go home to England. Three weeks abroad and I am having my first decent cup of tea (excluding in the rental house where I used my own teabags) since I left home. Real English tea, real milk, made with boiling […]

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Cancer 145

Margaret Thatcher did get something right. Now I have your attention I would like to admit I have done something I haven’t done for years, I have been on a bus. OK it was a shuttle bus going about 2km from a car park to the Konigstuhl on Rugen Island in Germany, but it was […]

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Cancer 144

I sometimes think I am the fattest cancer patient around. All this talk of how people with cancer lose their appetite just passes me by. I don’t think I am following the rules. Even though my cancer is food-related, or at least food-processing-relating, ie bowel cancer, I still want to eat continually. If I am […]

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Cancer 143

I grew up never thinking it would be possible to travel beyond the Iron Curtain. I have been lucky enough to have visited most of the countries that were part of the Warsaw Pact, and very much enjoyed my experiences, epecially finding out that life in the East was nothing like as horrific as was […]

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