Horty's Blog

  • A new exciting procedure....

    Two days to go. I'm having problems with my NG Tube. Before you can get food and drugs through it, the acid levels in the stomach need to be 5 or below. Mine are constantly 7 and above. This means that the tube could have become misplaced. Added ...
  • Another week, another Ward...

    Here we go again. It's morning and it's a new ward, new nurses, new patients. I have a bed by the window. There is just one TV in the room, which will certainly lead me to not giving the ward five stars on Trip Advisor. I phone my wife and as...
  • 38 Point Something,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    So the Radiotherapy continues. Everyday, I wake up, leap out of bed and wonder what delights the day has in store for me...Oh yeh, it's Radiotherapy day. I've had 14 sessions so far. I've noticed that I've got a mouth ulcers and my neck is start...
  • Boredom then it's Radio Gaga.

    The period between discharge from hospital and Radiotherapy, has been taken up with regular appointments but not a lot else. I've given up watching the BBC news, as it is too negative to be of any use and it has become a bee in my bonnet.....I can th...
  • More of the same.......

    Well, it's the day off my fitting. The last time I had a fitting I was 18, getting a suit from Burtons, for my first job at a Bank since leaving school. I'm more nervous this time though, but I try to reassure myself that at least I'm...