Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  • MacMillan bloggers, I thank you

    Hello, its been a while since I last posted here. December was a bit of a month and Christmas was a blur spent in the company of the ‘Cheese Eating Assassins’. I hope to do a longer post on these guys. And that’s not why I am writin...
  • 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...