Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  • DEVASTATED!

    Apologies Not my usual tone of post at all. My trip to London next week has now been cancelled and surgery kicked into an unknown future date by a ridiculous oversight by the London team. Way back last summer, as part of the investigations into the l...
  • But it’s not like that on the TV when it’s cool for cats

    Life is getting a little hardcore out here on Exmoor. In ‘Chop, Chop’ I described the massive Total Pelvic Extermination surgery that I am being lined up for. Now, one month after the initial video consultation with the surgeon, I am gett...
  • Chop, Chop!

    I had not anticipated writing a journal entry at this point. I am on a treatment break, in the gap between the end of radiotherapy and the follow up scans that will dictate if surgery is possible. I am feeling really well at the moment; The best I ha...
  • Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Fire!

    Advance apologies, some of you will already have realised the downward trajectory of this essay…Well, I have got bottom cancer. On Valentines Day I completed 5 weeks of chemo-radiotherapy. Actually, it started as chem-radiotherapy and followin...
  • The King and Irony

    Just a few days ago we heard the news that King Charles has cancer. The media coverage for this has been, understandably, extensive. Much of the coverage has focused on the Kings openness in sharing this news and how this will help with raising the p...