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  • Thoughts from the frontline - 81 - End of 2009 Special

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    Well 2009 is over. And the Christmas festivities are over too, New Year has been celebrated and everyone is starting a diet or a detox January!

    Firstly a quick canter through the feastive season for us...

    Christmas in the A & T house was fun. Six for Christmas lunch and only a few "words" between T and me on how to cook the food :-). And everyone seemed to enjoy our efforts on the food.

    Boxing day was…

  • Thoughts from the frontline - 80

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    What happened to Tuesday this week? I know we had one because we seemed to get a delivery of last minute xmas bits every 5 mins and I was trapped in the house to make sure that I didn't miss any and then have to venture out to some depot hidden away from normal society.

    That's right, Tuesday was all about snow and hearing of the tales of people from the night before and then finding out that one of the local towns…

  • Thoughts from the frontline - 79

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    Still catching up with our story here. it is now Friday 18th December at about 6.45 am and the radio alarm has just gone off...

    "Snow, up to 4 inches deep, bad driving conditions..." explained the lady on the radio. But the information was very non specific. Did that mean here or just in Yorkshire? "You can't go babe" T tells me. I had a planned meeting at Brentwood that morning, about an hour and a half journey in good…

  • Thoughts from the frontline - 78

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    Hi folks. It's been a few days since my last blog so a bit to catch up on. :-)

    In fact it was last Tuesday and that was BS, as in before snow! Well, for Wednesday 16th December I had nothing in my diary so it would be a day when I would be either at home or in the office. The office being only a 5 minute walk from home meant that I could take a stroll there when ever it suited me. I'm lucky in that I can work from…

  • Thoughts from the frontline - 77

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    Now what should we call this stage? The bits in between scans that come on a regular basis to see if you are still clear or at least nothing has grown bigger or spread. So far I've just had one scheduled scan since my op to remove my bladder and prostate, the one three months post surgery. Next one is at the beginning of February.

    Do I feel cured of my cancer? Nope. Do I feel that I've still "got cancer" ? Well,…