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  • 1000km bike ride for Bladder Cancer Support UK

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    FormerMember

    Just a few more days to go! Please please sponsor the wonderful Mr Neil Haldar, Consultant Urological Surgeon who is on a 1000km cycling challenge from Bangkok to Saigon; travelling through Thailand, Cambodia + Vietnam between 25/11/11 to 12/12/11.


    Travelling with 6 other consultants, Neil is supporting us at Bladder Cancer Support UK. Now that is support!!


    With just over 5 days to go on the trip we are expanding our…

  • thoughts from the front line - 113

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    FormerMember

    Well hello everyone!

    It has been a year since I last posted anything on here which means that we are just a few days away from the 2 year anniversary of my operation and, yep, I'm still here! Live and kicking! :-)

    Sending big hugs to all of you on here wether a sufferer of cancer or a family/friend. Big love to those who have left us this year. You will be missed.

    Kicking those leaves, jump in  those puddles and…

  • Thoughts from the front line - 112

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    Where does the time go?

    I have just seen that it was way back on June 21st that I posted my last blog. So this is a catch up of the last couple of months.

    All has been well on the health side and I am still smiling at not having to have another scan until the end of October. This will be my first 6 month gap between scans and it feels good but it also can make you feel a bit nervous... a whole 6 months without anybody…

  • Not long now....

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    FormerMember

    Coming soon - the new charity for those with bladder cancer

     

  • Thoughts from the frontline - 111

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    So when do I "celebrate" my first year as a cancer sufferer?

    Is it a year after I had an appointment with my new local doctor who thought I needed an urgent referral to the hospital?

    Or is it a year after the first set of tests that found "something wrong"?

    Or is it a year after they confirmed that I had the big C?

    Or is it a year after the operation to remove my bladder and prostate to get rid…