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  • Blog Post: Surgery

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    Posted 8 months ago
    So it’s the morning on Saturday 11 th September 2010 and I am up early, as today I will be travelling from my home in Leeds to The Hampshire Clinic, Basingstoke to prepare for surgery on Monday. Sean and Jo are taking me down by car with Saranne their daughter and we are meeting my at the VW...

  • Blog Post: View from the bedside chair

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    Posted 11 months ago
    [Judy wrote this. She had lots of time for observation and contemplation yesterday. I, at least, had the occasional break. Judy pretty much got to sit for ten hours.] “Arrive early, 9ish, so we can do bloods,” said Dr Khan on the phone. “The radiologist doesn’t work on Friday...

  • Blog Post: Keeping sane!

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Another steroid fuelled evening.... yes it is 2:30am... ridiculous! I will definitely be sleeping for 3 days once the steroids wear off! Apparently some people have no problems with steroids and feel no side effects, I am clearly not one of them.... and to be honest, I’ve yet to meet someone who...

  • Blog Post: What a difference a day makes

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Seriously. Yesterday I couldn't get arrested - not that I was trying to get arrested, but the Churchill had gone all sullen and uncommunicative, painted its bedroom ceiling black, and was playing My Chemical Romance on an infinite repeating loop; today I've been beating them off with a stick...

  • Blog Post: Overcoming post surgery boredom!

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    After a steroid-fuelled weekend and a day of post-steroid craziness I’m ready for my second blog, very exciting! (Is it just me or does anyone else get weird post-steroid “sensorial hallucinations”? – yesterday it felt like I was being crushed by gigantic rocks!) When I was...

  • Blog Post: When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    It was a funny week, last week. Not that they're not all a bit strange these days, what with the way everything has to revolve around cancer, in pure defiance of Galileo, but mostly what I do is spend my life sitting around, usually feeling guilty about sitting around and being sure that there ought...

  • Blog Post: Under pressure

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Funny old thing, that cancer - yes, indeed, I see you all laughing already. Here I am with a tummy full of foreign bodies doing their best to mount a coup d'état against my internal organs, but a lot of the time I don't really feel all that bad. Then - of course - I feel like a terrible...

  • Blog Post: Countdown to D-Day

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    You know, I actually haven't any idea what the 'D' in D-Day stands for. Isn't that shameful? I assume I must've been told, at some point in the past fiftyveryodd years, but it's gone. Gone with the wind. (Even more shamefully, I could tell you the plot of that .) Anyway, I...

  • Blog Post: Being bored

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    My dear mamma used to tell me that only boring people were bored. This is a painful thought; I must be positively stultifying, because, as things stand at present, I am pretty much climbing the walls - or I would be, if the walls in our house weren't made of cardboard, or close enough, and probably...

  • Blog Post: The first cut is the deepest

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Hello, blog. The last time we spoke, as you may remember, I had had a post-chemo check-up which had been indecisive, to say the least, as the oncology team hadn't then come to any real decision. However, then I had a phone call to say that they would like to do a second laparoscopy (funny things...
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