PDT - Not a silver bullet ...
Just in case my many readers (ha, ha) think I am under the illusion that PDT is a 'cure' for inoperable oesophageal cancer - I do not. The research suggests that it is a useful palliative treatment and it seems to me to be preferable to the alternatives which are very, very few hence my probably unreasonable delight that I have found someone in this country who offers this treatment…
Oesophageal Cancer Stage IV - A Good Day!
Off with my list (and my husband) to the (new) GP yesterday morning. I run through what, to me, seems the particularly terrible sequence of events. The list is something like the following, with a few addiions on the way as the blood pressure was rising:
Stage IV Oesophageal Cancer - Nearly Year 2. Carrying on Blogging.
I have been spending some time roaming this site - a return visit after some failures earlier in the year. I know people are communicating with each other out there and I think I have managed to communicate with them ...but I am not sure!
And I don't think I really meant to start a blog but now I have started, I will continue and record…
Not a 'Belle Jour' at all.
It was helping - this writing a blog business. But it is slightly creepy, this idea that you have, foolishly, trusted people on a site like this, with things you would not have said to anyone you felt did not understand and to ....well, blah, to all that.
Do you know how I really spent the day - after I have picked myself up from the stuff going on here? On the phone, to explain to…
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