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Cancer 119

It has been a little while since my last blog. It has been a difficult few weeks. Since February there has been several problems. I have had pneumonia, and I have had several infections mainly due to my PICC lines. I have had three PICC lines fitted, one in my left arm and two in […]

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Cancer 117

Another unexpected trip to the hospital. I don’t like unexpected trips to the hospital. They are depressing. They show that there are flaws in the ways my body is adapting and changing to cancer. It also means I will be spending more hours waiting, and will be jabbed and poked around with more than I […]

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Cancer 116

I started this post a little while ago but got distracted by treatment and life. I was back at the hospital a couple of weeks ago because my PICC line appeared to be slipping out – something that is not supposed to happen but had happened to me a few weeks before. The PICC line […]

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Cancer 114

For the first time in about three weeks, I am feeling fairly normal. I am sitting in the rooftop restaurant in the hospital waiting for my chemotherapy. Having cancer is a little like being in the armed forces. There is a lot of waiting involved and at the end of it a serious risk of […]

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Cancer 112

I will apologise at the outset for bringing up a subject that some people responded negatively to in an earlier post, that of dying. Over the last three weeks, I have been having a bit of a rough time. Initially, it was pneumonia, then a general feeling of malaise, and yesterday I got a bug […]

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