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  • Blog Post: Where it all began ..........

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    Posted 5 months ago
    As I'm a few months down the road on my cancer journey, I will fill in the gaps prior to today. I so wish that I had started this earlier as my friends suggested! I am 54 years young, with three grown up children. On Monday 3rd September 2012, I visited my GP, with concerns about a breast...

  • Blog Post: Work and cancer webchat – Friday 30 November

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    Posted 5 months ago
    Whether you’re living with cancer or supporting someone who is, the impact on your working life can be really serious. You might need to take time off, reduce your hours or work more flexibly – and you could be worried about earning less money or being treated unfairly by your employer...

  • Blog Post: Groundhog Day

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    Posted 6 months ago
    The Exe estuary can be fairly dismal in autumn! Sorry about the gap between posts . I'm fine, but things have shifted on from "Wow, they're on the case!" to the prospect of a long samey Groundhog Day winter with a three-week cycle, looking at my chemotherapy tablet schedule. I've...

  • Blog Post: *taps* is this thing on?!?! Oh HAI!

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Yes. I'm a bit rubbish. Yes I'm a bit crap. I've been away for far too long. And for that i apologise. I will gracefully accept being whacked about the head with a pillow and stuffed into a tub full of baked beans. It's been a year folks. A whole year. And in that time I have...

  • Blog Post: The fear of the unknown.

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    Posted 7 months ago
    I am so very tired of spending days terrified of what will happen in the future. More exhausting and painful than any chemotherapy, is that uncertainty that seems to come hand in hand after being diagnosed with cancer, I have suffered at the hands of ill inspected xrays, and have paid the price for said...

  • Blog Post: First time chemo - an intravenous banquet

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Swanney: Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps? Renton: No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please. I couldn't help thinking of this scene from Trainspotting today; it's been a veritable banquet of intravenous drugs, the main...

  • Blog Post: Friends and others

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    Posted 7 months ago
    I'm sure this is a universal experience , but people's reactions to hearing of my illness have been highly varied, some predictable, and some surprising (though not always in a good way). I'm an atheist, but a number of people I know to be religious are praying for me: in the conventional...

  • Blog Post: Seeing the enemy

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Today I had an ENT appointment - they're still looking for a primary tumour, and had a glance at my throat with a trans-nasal endoscope (tickly and eye-watering, but painless - nothing like that "Euarrrgh!" moment when Arnold Schwarzenegger puts the probe in his nose in Total Recall )....

  • Blog Post: Family visit

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    Posted 7 months ago
    As further tests revealed the prognosis to be more serious, I revised my original plan not to tell my parents about my illness for now, and Irene and I went for a flying visit to see them. As they live on a European island, it was a pretty lengthy trip by train, bus, two ferries, bus, walk - a day...

  • Blog Post: Chemo - I hate you almost as much as i hate cancer... almost...

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    Posted 8 months ago
    I know chemo is my friend but today i still have that disgusting taste in my mouth, i've had to drop the painkillers as I reacted badly, I still have stomach ache and now nausea. My mouth is getting better but the same cold sores are visiting again. and sleep is apparently visiting someone else!...
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