I have often compared having metastatic cancer to being on a train journey. Once you are told your cancer is incurable, you have boarded the train. You know its final destination. You don’t know the route it will take or how long the journey wi...
Today was my 3-weekly oncology review and crunch time on whether I can finally come off the steroids. I haven’t been feeling good for the last few weeks. Aches. Stiffness. Headaches. Feeling tired and listless. Sometimes feeling slightly queasy...
If one more person says “you’ve got this” or “you are so strong”, I think I might floor them. The other day, someone at the swimming pool told me she wouldn’t have been able to cope if she had had all the issues I ...
Seven and a half months of prednisolone and still going. I had been warned the latter stages were the hard bit. At the beginning, on very high dosage, when I felt continually jittery and couldn’t sleep or taste anything, that was hard to imagin...
The joint at the base of the big toe on my right foot has become increasingly painful, red and inflamed over the last 4 days. I contacted the acute oncology service yesterday, but they weren’t particularly interested as I have a review with my ...
