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Cancer 39

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, […]

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Cancer 38

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 […]

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Cancer 37

I thought I would change the subject and not talk about cancer and illness. Through this process of diagnosis and calamity I have been attempting to finish my book. I think I mentioned that I managed to work on it while I was in hospital and submitted the manuscript. I finished it early as it […]

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Cancer 36

Perhaps understandably, over the last few weeks I have been a little preoccupied by time. It all boils down to ‘How much time have I got?’ and ‘How much of that time will be good quality time?’ Philosophers and others have questioned what is meant by time for thousands of years. Immediately we are introduced […]

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Cancer 35

From September 1939 to May 1940 the Alliies, Britain and France, experienced what was known as the phoney war. They sat behind their defences on the Western Front, the French facing the Germans, the British facing the neutral Belgians (if Germany invaded the British would sweep through Belgium to attack the Germans), the Germans facing […]

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