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Cancer 59
Posted on June 27, 2023 2 Comments
I am currently having my second round of chemotherapy. Whereas last week there was several hours delay before the drugs arrived, this week I was wired up and pumping drugs bang on time. I am in the same room, and chose to sit in the same uncomfortable chair. I don’t know why, as there were […]
Cancer 58
Posted on June 23, 2023 Leave a Comment
While I am doing my best to hold it all together and accept what is coming, there are times, as I think I have noted here before, when it can be quite difficult. This morning was one of those times. I had an appointment to see the consultant to see whether I would be fit […]
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 […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 