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Tuesday 17th February. They have joined the two consultations together – chemo and radio so that you don’t have to endure the Friday mayhem at the oncology clinic. Much appreciated. Anyway bloods are good. The doc had a good look at my mouth and then I got issued with a new prescription for the rest of my chemo during the five weeks radio session. I dropped my prescription into the pharmacy and then went back downstairs…

Roland fights back. Sorry I haven't been on for a couple of days. The infection in my mouth got worse and on Saturday morning I phoned the oncology department. Lovely to see you, they said and thereby hangs another tale. I'll be back.

Laughter is the best medicine. Please don't apologise for laughing at my blog. That is what it is there for. Regards writing a book, I have stated a couple - one is a fictional story based on my coalmining career and is an attempt to detail life in a modern coalmine. Instead of writing it as a description I have put it in the context fo a story with characters who are an amalgam of all of the characters I have met along…

Got up on Sunday feeling OK and went though my usual ritual – first my diabetes tablets followed by a bowl of porridge, some fruit juice and a two pint mug of green tea in my mug which bears the legend “Granddad knows best.” No need to guess who bought me that. Then the chemo drugs while eating the porridge. Got the dinner prepared and cooked while Irene went to the club to worship the great god Bongo. Antony and Lyndsey…

Got back home and a very apologetic radiographer phoned up – could she change my appointment? Not a problem – she offered me a choice of three. It appears that LINAC 2 is still out of action. Irene says I must have broke it proper! Can’t find anything about toothache and radio and chemo but you can’t have any dentistry work done while you are on chemo because an infection can be devastating – chemo interferes with white…