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Cancer 77
Posted on September 20, 2023 Leave a Comment
I have a new variation on the old Boomtown Rats song. My version is: “Tell me why I don’t like Thursdays.” Not very original, I will admit, but appropriate to the last 4 months of my life, and presumably/hopefully the next two months. I noticed today that I keep speaking of tomorrow, meaning what is […]
Cancer 76
Posted on September 18, 2023 Leave a Comment
I have a perhaps understandable focus on thinking about death. I am currently alive, but at some point in the probably not too distant future, I will be dead. As an undergraduate, I studied philosophy for two years as a subsidiary subject. One of the topics was dualism and materialism. While I was and am […]
Cancer 75
Posted on September 15, 2023 Leave a Comment
After my worries last night, I have had my CT scan results and they are positive. I still have the cancer. That is not going anywhere. It is scattered all over my abdomen, but there are no further growths and some shrinkage. My blood tests are normal, including the CEA which is slightly down. So […]
Cancer 74
Posted on September 15, 2023 Leave a Comment
As usual, I am awake in the middle of the night. It is the standard pattern, go to bed early, sleep for 2-3 hours, get restless, get up, read/write, and hopefully go back to bed for another couple of hours before getting up for another day. Tonight is a little different as I have a […]
Cancer 73
Posted on September 1, 2023 Leave a Comment
I have never really seen the humour in farting. While I am probably as childish as the next person when it comes to humour generally, fartingi s just not funny. At school several of the kids would fart then expect everyone to laugh. Many did laugh, but I always was a little disgusted by the […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 