I am grateful that the protocol for breast cancer is now 5 days of treatment - I know people who had 15 days of treatment relatively recently, and people who had 5 or 6 weeks further back in time. Modern linear accelerators are able to deliver h...
I have had the first 2 of 5 sessions of radiotherapy. It should have been 3, but linac5 (which I am booked on) decided to break down today, before my appointment.
The linear accelerators at my hospital are fairly new. Large, white machines. Big...
It’s amazing how quickly scan results can be turned around when a consultant pushes. I think she was slightly embarrassed when I saw her on the 31st and she found that none of the scans they requested had happened, despite being requested 4 wee...
The third scan of the trio was the liver MRI. Actually 3 different types of scan, but all in the MRI scanner. This was possibly the one I had been most worried about based on other people’s experiences. I shouldn’t have worried, it was pe...
Last night we had a big storm. I live on the South coast in a small city, and our large hospital is about 5 miles away by car, about half by motorway. I left home shortly after 8am for a 9am appointment, conscious it was rush hour. It didn&rsqu...
