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Cancer 249
Posted on April 18, 2026 2 Comments
I am really starting to hate nights. I was never very good at them, never very good at sleeping, and during the first couple of years of cancer I sort of managed ok, usually sleeping 3-4 hours, which seemed sufficient. Now I can’t go to bed because I can’t lie down to to breathing problem. […]
Cancer 248
Posted on April 13, 2026 1 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 246
Posted on April 11, 2026 1 Comment
Well, that was an experience. I have some advice for those of you who have a terminal diagnosis of one sort or another, don’t wit until you are dead to have a wake, especially if you have a wonderful set of friends. I don’t really know where the idea ame from. It was originally going […]
Cancer 245
Posted on April 8, 2026 Leave a Comment
I have been a bit rough lately, though not so bad now. I am trying to get into the habit of having morphine 4-5 times a day, but I find it difficult. I am not designed to take painkillers, though rationally I know it is the right thing to do. I am regularly getting sick […]
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 […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 