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Cancer 239

It is getting worse. I am getting worse. Sleep is one of the main problems. I am falling asleep in odd places and odd times. I have never got on with sleeping, but now it seems I have no choice. If I sit for any length of time I fall asleep, whether I am sitting […]

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Cancer 238

We are away on holiday in the Lake District. Ever since I started my second line treatment I have quite ill on the Sunday and Monday following the chemotherapy. This time I am trying to reduce the imact with a range of drugs, including morphine, metoclopromide and parcetamol. This is in addition to my usual […]

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Cancer 237

Well, it is an, exciting life having terminal cancer. Up to this morning I was thinking I was running into my last weeks. I have now been to see the consultant. It turns out that because the tumour growth was under 20% (I don’t know whether that means 5% or 19%, but it feels more […]

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Cancer 236

I am writing this deliberately before I see the consultant tomorrow, when I expet to find out the awful truth. So Long folks, and thanks for not giving me the fish. It feels like I am dying now. I know I have been on this track for a long time (not long enough), but this […]

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Cancer 235

I have felt ghastly these last few days. I am not impressed by the side effects of chemo. I was very lucky for the first couple of years in that most of the time I had few such effects. Now they are, I won’t say unbearable, because humans can put up with anything if they […]

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