Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  • Tough Days and Pantyliners

    Sorry to disappoint, this is not the best Country and Western song that you have yet to hear. It’s now day 21 of 35 of my chemo-radiotherapy treatment. And things are just a little different to my previous, rather jolly, entry on day 8. Well, q...
  • 'No Mr Bond, I expect you to die'

      Co-incidentley, Goldfinger’s famous quote to Bond was made in 1964, the year that I was born. Sean Connery’s Bond is strapped legs-akimbo* to a table as a steel-cutting laser slowly advances towards his gentleman’s department...
  • Disassociation, a blessing?

      Definition; The action of separating or disconnecting. A quick google tells me that there is a psychological condition called ‘Dissociation Disorder’. I am not going to delve into complex conditions about which I have no knowledge....
  • High Noon, again

      Welcome to part three. For ‘Lord of the Rings’ cognoscenti, this is ‘Return of the King’. Well, we will see…We left part two with the end of three months of chemotherapy on Thursday 7th December 2023. Where are w...
  • Ding, Ding, Round Four

    Ding, Ding, Round Four I started three months of Chemotherapy on Monday 18th September 2023. It is now Thursday 7th December. And the last day of scheduled poison pills and the start of a proper detox. Well, truth be known I am actually now over 24 ...