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Cancer 114
Posted on March 19, 2024 Leave a Comment
For the first time in about three weeks, I am feeling fairly normal. I am sitting in the rooftop restaurant in the hospital waiting for my chemotherapy. Having cancer is a little like being in the armed forces. There is a lot of waiting involved and at the end of it a serious risk of […]
Cancer 113
Posted on March 15, 2024 Leave a Comment
This is just a short post to let you know that I am all right again now. I feel as fit as a (rather decrepit) fiddle. No more talk of dying or pneumonia (at least for the moment), though my blood results are showing up some other issues. I have a slightly overactive thyroid, which […]
Cancer 112
Posted on March 14, 2024 Leave a Comment
I will apologise at the outset for bringing up a subject that some people responded negatively to in an earlier post, that of dying. Over the last three weeks, I have been having a bit of a rough time. Initially, it was pneumonia, then a general feeling of malaise, and yesterday I got a bug […]
Cancer 111
Posted on March 8, 2024 Leave a Comment
At this point in an innings Mr Shepherd would be balancing on one leg. Superstition has odd effects on people. It hasn’t been a great week. It is now Friday afternoon and I am watching Inglourious Basterds for perhaps the 5th time. It is one of my favourite films. I had a CT scan this […]
Cancer 110
Posted on March 6, 2024 Leave a Comment
My treatment didn’t go as well as expected yesterday. It was going perfectly well until nearing the end, where I should have my bottle/pump fitted, which I wear for the next 46 hours. Unfortunately, there was a problem with my PICC line. It had started to pull out. How? No idea, it is not supposed […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 