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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 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 235
Posted on February 24, 2026 1 Comment
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 […]
Cancer 222
Posted on December 13, 2025 Leave a Comment
When I started this blog, my intention was todescribe the process of having cancer, and dying from cancer. It has been ongoing for nearly three years now. I was diagnosed in January 2023 and started chemotherapy in June 2023. Until recently, I have been relatively stable. The chemotherapy worked for a reasonably long period, and […]
Cancer 216
Posted on November 21, 2025 Leave a Comment
It is back to the numbers game. I am starting my second line treatment on Tuesday, after the failure of the first line treatment. I was lucky I suppose, the first line treatment lasted two years and three months, which is longer than the average. I am now moving on to Folfox, which basically means […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 