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Posted on April 13, 2026 Leave a Comment
I did a short speech at the living wake, trying to explain my views about cancer and death. A couple of people have asked me to summarise it here, so in the interests of breaking my own rules of blogging, here goes, beraing in ming that, two days later, I am still very tired and […]
Cancer 244
Posted on March 31, 2026 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Cancer 238
Posted on March 7, 2026 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Cancer 237
Posted on February 27, 2026 1 Comment
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 […]
Cancer 236
Posted on February 26, 2026 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 