Uncategorized Category

Cancer 244

Chemo brain (chemo-brain, chemobrain?) is a thing. It is a thing I have in increasing quantity/amount. There are two main components at the moment, at the lower level I forget words, usually nouns, at the higher level I forget whether I have said something, or had something said to me. I forget people’s names, I […]

Read More

Cancer 243

If you are eating, then finish what you are doing before reading this. Not long after my last blog, I had a bowel disaster, the worst one ever, and I have had a few. Imagine for a moment that I have removed the stoma bag, cleaned up and am sitting there giving the area some […]

Read More

Cancer 242

It is 0420. I have been sitting in my chair since about 2000, alternately sleeping, dozing and, occasionally, waking. I am usually woken by the sound of my book thudding on the floor as I drift off (Baltic: The Future of Europe by Oliver Moody, as you are asking). I am immensely tired. It is […]

Read More

Cancer 241

You know how Star Trek has changed the world? Without star Trek we wouldn’t have phasers I know, they are quite big at the moment but we are getting there), we wouldn’t have mobile phones, and we wouldn’t have doors that open automatically as a person approaches. I still don’t really get the latter though […]

Read More

Cancer 240

My tiredness and dropping off to sleep is getting serious. I am sitting reading the draft of my thesis (yes, draft complete and printed out – long way to go yet though) and found myself with my head down, fallen asleep. OK, last night I got virtually no sleep, because no matter how tired I […]

Read More