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Cancer 127
Posted on June 14, 2024 Leave a Comment
I had a particularly bad stoma spillage the other day. I won’t go into too many details in case you are eating, but I was changing bags when my remaining bowel decided to do a Surtsey over my stomach and trousers. It was a heavy and messy affair, but it is what you have to […]
Cancer 126
Posted on June 3, 2024 2 Comments
Three days after the butterfly catcher slashed my jugular, I am still feeling it. Last night I felt a distorted pulse (this is a vein, not an artery), and at one point I thought I felt the line move. These feelings, along with a myriad of others, are no doubt largely psychosomatic, made up by […]
Cancer 125
Posted on May 31, 2024 Leave a Comment
OK, well that went fine. I could feel it as the surgeon cut into my jugular, and as he shoved the plastic piping through my vein to my heart, but it wasn’t painful. The most painful part was the injections of the local anaesthetic at the start of the procedure, but I was ready for […]
Cancer 124
Posted on May 31, 2024 Leave a Comment
I am writing this while in hospital, waiting for my Hickman line to be inserted. I have signed my consent form and been given information about the procedure. I love the bits that can go wrong. The best two are that they could puncture a lung or an artery. Even without mistakes they slice open […]
Cancer 123
Posted on May 27, 2024 Leave a Comment
I am in the last week before my treatment restarts, and I feel physically better than I have felt since it started last year, nearly a year ago. Today I walked further than I have walked since my operation. It was under two miles, but it was hilly. I am absolutely knackered now, with even […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 