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Alex led me astray last night and we had to go to the club and watch Irene playing bingo! The chemo effect is beginning to abate and my mouth is no longer as sore – I find that saline mouthwash clears it up fairly quickly but I do have a bit of a chemo brain! I was just thinking about the saga I had to get a British passport. I was born in Northern Rhodesia and was initially on my mother’s passport, then I was on a collective…

Denise, one of the cancer nurses has just phoned to say that my CT scan was clear and does not show any secondary tumours. Brilliant news. She also said that my operation is likely to be scheduled for June. My brother Alex has turned up along with Antony, Lyndsey and my liittle girl – quite a family reunion. Friday night and the club is fairly busy. There is a female singer who is pregnant. I decide to change seats…

Jonathan has decided to clean the bathroom and it sounds like a war zone downstairs with banging and crashing. I remark to Irene that is like being in a first world war trench. How can you make so much bloody noise cleaning mirrors and tiles? We can stand it no longer and retreat to the peace and quiet of the club where Irene leads me astray by buying some pints of the foaming ale. As we went out of the door she asked…

1. A man dashes into the A&E dept. and yells, 'My wife's going to have herbaby in the taxi.' I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the taxi, lifted thelady's dress and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly after protestsfrom the lady I noticed that there were several taxi's, and I was in thewrong one.Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald, St. Andrews Hosp. Glasgow. 2. At the beginning of my shift, I placed a stethoscope on…

Wednesday the 22nd and it’s the day of my MRI scan (pelvis) and CT scan (chest and abdomen) for the surgery team to look at. They are digging the main road up in Cotgrave and there are temporary traffic lights so I am delayed but I am not worried because I have got plenty of time. Out on the ring road and there is the usual thirty miles and hour vehicle in the outside lane. I cut inside it at the roundabout but they…