Following my ‘2 week’ emergency referral to an ENT specialist made in August, the letter finally arrives inviting me to an appointment on 6 November. This will be for an endoscopy, so I arrange the time from work, not really fancying tryi...
The story of how we actually found this beast growing in my neck is I am afraid somewhat convoluted, with the odd dead end and wrong turn. It started with a cold. It was one of those solid head colds, going through a box of tissues every other day wi...
The rest of day 1 was spent overcoming the tsunami of emotions: shock, fear, anger, disbelief, guilt, the list goes on. There were 2 tasks at the top of the list
Research, get informed and create a plan to win this battle
Work out when and how to ha...
I'll add some back story later, but let's start with 'the moment'. This was the day the word 'malignant' went on overdrive in one of the crappiest ways possible.
Having been back in school teaching for 2 1/2 days after self-isolating I was star...
