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Posted on March 24, 2026 Leave a Comment
If you are eating, then finish what you are doing before reading this. Not long after my last blog, I had a bowel disaster, the worst one ever, and I have had a few. Imagine for a moment that I have removed the stoma bag, cleaned up and am sitting there giving the area some […]
Cancer 241
Posted on March 18, 2026 Leave a Comment
You know how Star Trek has changed the world? Without star Trek we wouldn’t have phasers I know, they are quite big at the moment but we are getting there), we wouldn’t have mobile phones, and we wouldn’t have doors that open automatically as a person approaches. I still don’t really get the latter though […]
Cancer 240
Posted on March 13, 2026 Leave a Comment
My tiredness and dropping off to sleep is getting serious. I am sitting reading the draft of my thesis (yes, draft complete and printed out – long way to go yet though) and found myself with my head down, fallen asleep. OK, last night I got virtually no sleep, because no matter how tired I […]
Cancer 239
Posted on March 11, 2026 Leave a Comment
It is getting worse. I am getting worse. Sleep is one of the main problems. I am falling asleep in odd places and odd times. I have never got on with sleeping, but now it seems I have no choice. If I sit for any length of time I fall asleep, whether I am sitting […]
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 […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 