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Cancer 42
Posted on May 23, 2023 Leave a Comment
Having a sort of end date to my life changes the way I think about things. When we don’t have such an end date we can put things off until later. We can say, ‘Yes, I would love to go there, but not yet, I have other important things to do’. I no longer have […]
Cancer 41
Posted on May 22, 2023 Leave a Comment
I have had my first oncology appointment. The consultant was very pleasant, appears knowledgeable, and answered such questions as I had. I need some further tests, particularly in relation to my dodgy heart, but I hope to start chemo treatment very soon. I had hoped they might say I can take a pilll every week […]
Cancer 40
Posted on May 21, 2023 Leave a Comment
It is the big day tomorrow. My first oncology appointment. It is hard to know what to think, and my feelings are contradictory. For all my attempts at rationalising the experience of dying of cancer I feel at times that my resilience is being battered and is in danger of breaking. While I have no […]
Cancer 39
Posted on May 13, 2023 Leave a Comment
We are away for a week, partly to see how I get on, partly because as soon as we get back I have my first oncology appointment which is inevitably going to be life changing, whatever they say, and partly because we really need to get away. I have mentioned before this phoney war stage, […]
Cancer 38
Posted on May 3, 2023 Leave a Comment
Well, there’s another achievement. Since I was sitting in the hospital ward I have wanted to get out and start running my life again. I am managing to write a bit and, as I said last time, work on my submitted manuscript, and we have been getting out for a drive and a bit of […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 