Living with Desdemona

  • Chemo Starts Today: Desdemona's First Date

    I'm strangely excited ... and a little apprehensive. I dutifully took my Dexamethasone (or ‘Dexa’) before bed last night, it did make my (now) habitual nightly (two or three usually) hot flushes hotter, but not to the sweating level w...
  • Pre-Chemo Appointment: Desdemona's Wake-up Call

    I'm currently waiting for a second blood test, they missed my HepB check on the first go around, having just returned from getting an ECG. Good news from the first blood test, my haemoglobin up to 101, from 79, but I had to have two blood transfu...
  • The Beginning: Discovering Desdemona

    Hi, I'm David, here's the start of my story. In mid-January 2026 I had a bout of flu. It was irritating, but relatively light and passed quite quickly. However, by late January I was starting to feel the impact of post-viral fatigue - or so I...