A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  • Inflammation

    Today’s situation. Largely housebound having attempted to reduce my steroids from 2micrograms to 1 a day. Ok it’s a 50% reduction but a minuscule amount compared with the blockbuster steroid dosage I was on when this all started. Every st...
  • Microwave ablation recovery second time around

    Microwave ablation is a bit like childbirth - you somehow lose the memories of the worst bits and talk yourself into it again. I have no doubt it’s a lot less invasive than a liver resection, but I don’t think the information leaflet does...
  • Ping! A 1 in a 1000 experience

    Despite not having confirmation of a bed, I turned up in the radiology day case unit at 8am on Tuesday for my microwave ablation of the liver. A familiar place, it’s where I had my portacath fitted, and where I had my previous (unsuccessful) mi...
  • A Valentine’s date with an MRI scanner

    I am familiar with having medical appointments on Valentine’s Day. 14th Feb 22 was when I met with the consultant breast surgeon following the biopsy I had had at the one stop breast clinic. Whilst I had been certain I had cancer, it was still ...
  • Numb

    We decided to take a short break whilst I await my appointment for a liver MRI. The ongoing slew of consequences from my immunotherapy related adverse event have been taking their toll on me physically and mentally, and I felt a change of scenery mig...