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Cancer 7
Posted on February 20, 2023 Leave a Comment
I have a date for my operation, Wednesday 15 March. Beware the Ides of March. Apparently this is the day in the Roman calendar when debts were settled. It was the date Julius Caesar (the real one, not just the one in Shakespeare’s play) was killed. He was stabbed by a number of senators, so […]
Cancer 6
Posted on February 17, 2023 Leave a Comment
Perhaps the best thing to come out of having a diagnosis of cancer is the support I have received from so many people. There are messages on social media, and many more personal messages. There are messages from friends and family, and from people I know less well and some from people I don’t know […]
Cancer 5
Posted on February 15, 2023 1 Comment
While most of the time I can get on with living reasonably normally there are moments, minutes, that are difficult. I lie awake at night, but I have always done that so that is no different really. I have just spoken on the telephone with a nurse about my pre-op. I now have a date […]
Cancer 4
Posted on February 5, 2023 3 Comments
Perhaps the worst aspect of the internet is the availability of information, some of it accurate, some of it less accurate. When someone gets a nasty disease it is common for them to search the internet and try to understand what is happening to them. I get it. I do those searches just like everyone […]
Cancer 3
Posted on February 3, 2023 1 Comment
Briefly, some pretty good news. I spoke to the cancer nurse today. The cancer is confirmed. OK, that isn’t entirely positive, but only one node found outside the bowel. I don’t know where it is, but presumably near the bowel. All organs clear except two small nodes on the right lung, which may or (probably) […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 