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Cancer 104

A very popular way of dealing with human problems is the support group, usually now the online support group. Before I retired I was slightly involved with these support groups, usually in relation to students’ small-scale research projects. I sometimes wondered about their value but never really thought it through. They are presumably very helpful […]

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Cancer 103

Something I have very occasionally done when I am troubled is visit Heage, where I was born. I walk around my childhood haunts, see the windmill, walk past the house I was born in, and visit the churchyard, where I know an increasing number of the people buried there. Some of them are people from […]

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Cancer 102

Having cancer in the way I have cancer is a little like being sentenced to death and sitting in a cell on death row. Every two weeks I await the result of my blood tests to see if I am healthy enough to undergo my next round of chemo. If I am not healthy enough, […]

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Cancer 101

According to Orwell, room 101 is the worst thing in the world. I am not sure what the worst thing in the world is for me. I can think of quite a few objects or situations I don’t like, but the worst? It depends on timing. Whatever is bad at the moment is the worst […]

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Cancer 100

As this is my 100th blog on my cancer I feel it ought to be somehow special, but it isn’t, apart from being longer than average, sorry. While I am not sure what aspects of cancer could be special in a positive sense I don’t know. To coincide with the 100th cancer blog there are […]

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