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Cancer 79
Posted on September 29, 2023 Leave a Comment
It hasn’t been a good week. I haven’t slept properly for nearly a week. I get very tired, then lie in bed wide awake, so I get up, read a book, get tired, try to sleep, don’t succeed, read a book, get tired, and so on. Usually, it happens for a couple of nights and […]
Cancer 78
Posted on September 26, 2023 Leave a Comment
I’ve felt a little odd over the last couple of days. I get this regularly, and it usually occurs in the middle of the chemotherapy cycle. I can’t describe it exactly. It is not like being normally ill with a cold, aching joints, a snuffly nose, or a cough. It feels slightly alien, certainly unknown. […]
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 […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 