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Cancer 44
Posted on May 25, 2023 Leave a Comment
I got angry today and swore at someone on the telephone. I don’t regret it. He really got to me. I do not normally experience high levels of stress. Having cancer is sometimes stressful of course but usually I manage perfectly well. It is the smaller troubles that sometimes get to me, like people who […]
Cancer 43
Posted on May 24, 2023 Leave a Comment
0830 Another day at the hospital. If anyone needa directions to any part of this place I can probably give them in detail. Today I meet the nurse who will be administering my chemo. But that is for later. Right now I am sitting in Clinical Measurements waiting an indeterminate time for my 12 line […]
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 […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 