One Step At A Time

  • Chapter 31 - Round Two

    It’s Friday 6th November, and today I had my second round of immunotherapy. Eight days ago I was in Sheffield with a metal frame screwed to my head. The night before Our friends Heather and Ryan kindly came up with their kids, Seb and Alex, the...
  • Chapter 30 — On To The Next Step

    I took my last methylprednisolone tablet on the 8th of October. I’d been waiting for that moment for months. And then it arrived, and I was still tired, and nothing felt immediately different, and the anticlimax was almost impressive in its com...
  • Chapter 29 — The Last One (Probably)

    Tomorrow I take my last methylprednisolone tablet. I say probably, because life has a habit of proving me wrong on these things. The last time I said I was nearly off the steroids, I picked up a cold from the kids three days before the finish line a...
  • Chapter 28 — Nearly There (Again)

    Three weeks since the last update. Time has flown by — which is either a sign that life is getting more normal, or that I've been asleep for most of it. Possibly both. The headline is simple: I thought I was nearly off the steroids. I wasn&...
  • Chapter 27 — Dot the Lowercase J's

    It's been another three and a half weeks since I last wrote one of these. And if I'm being honest — not much has happened. Which, after the summer we've had, is exactly what I was hoping for. The bear remains unpoked. The steroid we...