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Cancer 224

This is the point where everyone says Happy New Year. I have never been comfortable with those kinds of phrases. Beyond a certain good manners, their words are not meant to convey any real meaning. I am not convinced this is going to be a happy new year for me. The growths in my abdomen […]

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Cancer 176

I had a number of ideas about this blog but the chemobrain means that ideas fall out of my brain like lemmings off a cliff (except lemmings dot do that, do they?). My brain is significantly affected by my treatment, unless the cancer has got to my brain. I wouldn’t know if it has because […]

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Cancer 169

In line with my, admittedly ridiculous, theory that I can’t die while in the middle of reading a book therefore I should focus on reading long books, I have just started War and Peace. I have read it three times, so I know the story pretty well. It is one of my favourite books. Of […]

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Cancer 108

My chemotherapy treatment was delayed for a week because I had pneumonia. Fortunately, I am better now (if that is the right word) so my treatment will go ahead next week. My bloods are as normal as they can be, my blood pressure is a little high, and my temperature is high normal. I am […]

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Cancer 90

It has been a while since my last blog, not because my life is not incredibly exciting, living from one breath to the next, but because I am trying to concentrate on writing my novel. I am back to rattling off the words. Plenty of stuff here about religion and politics in the mid-17th Century, […]

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