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,&...
'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...
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...
It’s been a roller coaster 24 hours.
Yesterday was an Oncology review at Musgrove Park in Taunton. I met my regular oncologist and one of the named nurses to find out what the latest scans showed. Two weeks ago, I had an MRI scan and a CT scan....
Well, no kippers, just toast.
The high pace of my medical treatment continues. On 2nd July, we have a video consultation with a heart procedure specialist from the Royal Brompton hospital. They describe the ‘mitra clip’ procedure; feeding...
