Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  • To die or to 'assisted' die?

    That is the question or will be this week for our elected representatives. I now fall squarely into the category of people that the proposed legislation is intended to apply to. Two weeks ago my palliative chemotherapy was stopped. The drugs did not ...
  • Zen and the Art of Dying Gracefully

    In ‘I am the Cancer Guy’, I referred to the fact that I have been having counselling and how this has helped me; most significantly in helping me come to terms with my terminal diagnosis and expected short lifespan. Two days ago, I had my...
  • I am the 'Cancer Guy'

    I am now one week into cycle two of six of the palliative chemotherapy course that may slow the spread of my now body-wide cancer. But that is not what I want to write about right now, I will come back to the medical stuff. In ‘One Trick Pony,&...
  • Fame at last!

    'Jon Holmes says the C Word' is a BBC radio series and podcast. In most episodes he speaks with famous men who have cancer AND in two episodes he speaks with more mortal types about their cancer experience. And one of those mortals (definitel...
  • One Trick Pony

    It’s been a month since I was told that the major ‘curative’ total pelvic exenteration surgery was no longer an option. I think that I have been mentally only semi-present for much of the time. Excuse me, if I use this entry to expl...