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Cancer 57
Posted on June 22, 2023 Leave a Comment
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but calling doesn’t hurt me.” Why don’t we hear this any more? Why is it now assumed that calling does hurt, that the use of words in itself is damaging? It isn’t. Words are just words. We should be careful in the way we use them, but to […]
Cancer 56
Posted on June 18, 2023 Leave a Comment
“As the body becomes weaker, so the spirit grows stronger” – Cicely Saunders, early pioneer of the hospice movement. I am not sure whether this is true, though I would like to think so. I think the relationship is more complex than that. Sometimes I feel like my body is growing weaker and my spirit […]
Cancer 55
Posted on June 13, 2023 Leave a Comment
This is one of those boring blogs. I am in a boring situation so I want to impose the boredom on you. I am in hospital, sitting in what for the first hour was a relatively comfortable chair, with a saline drip into my PICC line, waiting for my drugs to arrive. Apparently there is […]
Cancer 54
Posted on June 12, 2023 3 Comments
My PICC line is in, my arm has bled fairly heqvily, and tomorrow morning is chemo time. The PICC line just makes me think of related terms such as PICCaresque novels, ones which involve rogues or rascals doing stuff in episodic form, Captain PICCard of the Starship Enterprise, playing the PICColo, or PICConio the wooden […]
Cancer 53
Posted on June 12, 2023 Leave a Comment
What is happiness? Many people have tried to define it over the years. It is very difficult because happiness means different things to different people. I had better deal with this because it has been suggested that a few of my recent posts have been a little negative. I suspect this is more to do […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 