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Cancer 52
Posted on June 11, 2023 Leave a Comment
I have been talking about my reactions to cancer throughout these blogs, but I have not really said what the problem is. At one level I suppose this does not matter. I have cancer, it is going to kill me, I am not sure when. The health service has not yet established all the facts […]
Cancer 51
Posted on June 11, 2023 Leave a Comment
I suppose reaching fifty blogs on the subject of cancer is something of a milestone. I have had quite a few positive comments so I must be doing something right. I am probably repeating myself at times but I don’t care, the blog is more about a stream of consciousness than an attempt to write […]
Cancer 49
Posted on June 7, 2023 Leave a Comment
I have just developed a new fear. It happened while I was scrambling down a vertiginous slope while walking at Hadrian’s Wall. I realised that if I fell, and it was rather precarious, especially with my aching bones, I may well break a leg ir two and spend the rest of my foreshortened life in […]
Cancer 50
Posted on June 7, 2023 Leave a Comment
A few years ago a very good book on traumatic stress was written by Bessel van der Kolk, who works in Boston (Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire). It is called The Body Keeps the Score, and is well worth a read. The fundamental point of the book is that when negative things happen to you these are […]
Cancer 48
Posted on June 4, 2023 Leave a Comment
Neville Shute’s On the Beach is a great book, if somewhat flawed about the impact of radiation after a nuclear war. If there is anyone out there who hasn’t read it (and that should be rectified immediately) then it is based around a set of characters living in and around Melbourne – the Australian one, […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 