Crikey?! It is nearly December.
I am almost at the end of 6 months of intensive treatment. Twelve weeks of harsh chemotherapy and four weeks of chemo-radiation.
2015 has definitely proved to my well our annus horribilis. This time last year I was looking forward to Christmas as I always do...I adore Christmas. This year is different. This year it is almost an afterthought. I am struggling to get excited as there is no…
Dignity.
Cancer treatment affords you none. It strips you of it as soon as you begin. I think that actually it probably strips you of it before that even...
Today I have had to cancel travel plans because the 'stargate' (radiotherapy machine) is doing it's job. Therefore the expected side effects are taking place. Think toilets and frequency.
Then there is the actual process of receiving my daily dose. I have…
and it is quiet...
The children are in bed and so am I, in fact I have been in bed since around 4 pm after I fetched older master T home from school. It rained this afternoon, the kind of heavy rain that is somehow comforting when you are indoors listening to it. It has always been one of my favourite things, listening and watching heavy rain while I am cosy indoors.
Last week was full on. My tutorial in Sheffield…
Oh...what an eventful couple of days.
I had been thinking lately that I had nothing to say, nothing of interest, nothing that you dear readers would be interested in. I think the Bastard has been listening in to my thoughts. So we can add eavesdropper to the list of undesirable habits it has, alongside squatter, life wrecker etc.
I spent all day Monday at our big city centre posh hospital sitting in Ambulatory Care.
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Evening to you all.
Hopefully you are all spending this All Hallow's Eve doing what you enjoy the most, be it dressing up and partying or turning the lights off and hiding?
We are back after spending a wonderful few days staying in a hotel overlooking Robin Hood's Bay. A beautiful, beautiful place. This came about purely because our friends are amazing people. The view was spectacular and during the four days…
