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Cancer 257

The countdown to doomsday is accelerating. This is meant to be my best time of the round. It is over week since my last treatment, and my next treatment doesn’t start until next week. But – the side effects and the symptoms are, if anything, getting stronger, and it does feel that I am declining […]

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Cancer 256

I have been looking at the various ways of committing suicide. Some of them are less practical than others, all are a bit scary. I have never liked the idea of jumping off somewhere. I witnessed the recovery of a body from Beachy Head when I was a child. The rescue services had to be […]

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Cancer 255

Unlike during the rest of my life, whether fit and healthy, with heart failure or with cancer, it is now unusual to be awake for extended periods in the middle of the night. I usually sleep, wake up for the toilet, sleep, repeat. I havelittle doubt that I will sleep once I have completed this […]

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Cancer 254

I feel I am now watching myself through the process of dying. At the moment my body is deteriorating faster than my mind – or at least I think it is! I am tempted to leave all my typing errors but this might be unintelligible. It is difficult typing due to the severe tingling in […]

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Cancer 253

I may be entering a new phase of cancer life. This one is about waking up in the morning and wishing you hadn’t, wishing that you had died peacefully in your sleep. It is not every day – yet, but the number of times it is happening is increasing, particularly over the last couple of […]

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