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Posted on September 9, 2025 Leave a Comment
I have nothing to say, but I am sitting in hospital undergoing chemotherapy getting bored, so I thought I could bore you in turn. This is my 42nd round of chemo. According to Douglas Adams this is the answer to life, the universe and everything, so perhaps I will go home today cured of this […]
Cancer 205
Posted on August 26, 2025 Leave a Comment
Here we are again, at hospital to begin round 41, Muhammed Ali wouldn’t have survived this many rounds. The last week has been a hospital week. Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday, and now Tuesday again. Why Thursday twice? I went for my blood test and forgot the blood form, the holy blood form, without which blood […]
Cancer 201
Posted on July 27, 2025 Leave a Comment
I am a little out of it at the moment. I was told the effects of the radiotherapy could be three or four weeks. I finished 10 days ago, and have since had my 39th round of chemotherapy, and my body is a bit of a mess. The stoma is the worst. The RT was […]
Cancer 190
Posted on May 13, 2025 Leave a Comment
Today I started my 36th round of chemotherapy. It is late evening and I am sitting with my bottle of flourouracil dangling from a tube attached to my portacath and hence to my heart. It is dripping slowly into my bloodstream, and should continue to do so until Thursday afternoon, so I need to be […]
Cancer 152
Posted on November 8, 2024 1 Comment
I get my latest scan results today. For some reason I am not as optimistic as usual. At some point the chemotherapy will stop working and the cancer will grow. I have had a somewhat rough time of it in the last few weeks re diarrhoea, possible Covid, temperature probably relating to the flu and […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 