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Cancer 4

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 […]

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Cancer 3

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) […]

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Cancer 2

The NHS is doing a good job so far. I went to see the GP just before Christmas, who after an appropriate examination (not really my thing but I did find out that I don’t have a prostate problem) sent me for a sigmoidoscopy (for those not in the know it is a tube with […]

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Cancer

This is rather an awkward subject for many people, presumably because it is about life and death and many people have an awkwardness about death. I have just found out that I have bowel cancer. I have had the tests and now I am waiting for the results to see whether it has spread and […]

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Ukraine: What the media doesn’t tell us, Part Two

Last time I looked at some of the background issues regarding Ukraine and the current war. Now I would like to look at the military situation, which is very difficult as no one seems to know what is happening, and few people are even reporting the military situation beyond a few bland statements. Much of […]

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