So its Friday 8th June 2012 at 23:39 and I am watching NCIS that I have Sky +’d and I am writing my final blog. Its some 27 months since diagnosis and a lot has happened. I have never had a serious illness before and never wish to again, but for a Bowel Cancer patient the journey is much longer than I could have ever envisaged.
This morning at was at Spire for my annual CT scan something that I will have…
Monday 4th April 2011 is the date set for my reversal under the care of Brendan Moran at The Hampshire Clinic, Basingstoke. However 5 days earlier I am hit with a bug causing sickness and diarrhoea and it was decided that we would delay proceedings for 2 weeks.
So Monday 18th April 2011 is my new date and I travel down on my own by train the day before. The night before Sean and me go to the O2 in Leeds to see…
A few weeks back home and I went to visit my oncologist Professor Sebag Montefiore to discuss my next round of treatment. It was great to see him again and he was amazed at how well I looked and was so pleased that everything had gone to plan during surgery.
There were 3 options that we discussed and I decided upon the most aggressive one, which presented me with the best odds of the cancer not returning. This option…
The journey home by car was tough and some 4 hours later I am finally back at home. Moving from a hospital bed to my own was difficult at first to adjust to and so was being on my own now. Mum was great and friends rallied round, but having to manage my recovery was my job now. For over two weeks I have had available to me 24/7, an excellent team of medical personnel, attending to all of my needs, but now its down…
So it’s the morning on Saturday 11th September 2010 and I am up early, as today I will be travelling from my home in Leeds to The Hampshire Clinic, Basingstoke to prepare for surgery on Monday. Sean and Jo are taking me down by car with Saranne their daughter and we are meeting my at the VW dealership near Elland Road as I am leaving my car in storage. I am not really a MacDonald’s fan but a bacon muffin and…
