Peter's Blog

May 2025 to November 2025

2025-11-15T10:18:30Z

Following on from the results in May 2025, I had my next treatment the week after the results and it was interesting to get the nurses opinion on the Nivolumab jab as her understanding of it was that it might speed up the process slightly but that a ...(read more)

From November 2024 Results To May 2025 Results

2025-05-17T11:52:11Z

Following on from the results in November 2024 the couple of weeks after I had the usual mixed feelings about anniversaries, the 11th signalling three years since we were told that my cancer was back and that it was incurable, on the one hand with th...(read more)

A Living With Cancer Entry

2025-01-08T10:39:55Z

As January signifies 4 years since being told it looked like I had cancer, I’ve been thinking about how myself and my wife live with it and how it affects our lives, so I thought I’d do a post that doesn’t include any updates on my ...(read more)

July to October/November 24 Scan Results

2024-11-09T16:13:50Z

Kicking off from where I left off on my last entry, July went as planned with treatment and as normal we tried to get out and about for walks etc, aside from it got very warm, then I was sat inside with curtains closed and fans on to keep cool. Augus...(read more)

March to July 2024 Scan Results

2024-07-05T11:40:08Z

In this blog entry I have broken things down a little bit, at the top I have a month by month breakdown of things, then at the end little sub headings “fatigue” and “random rant”. So as always, grab a tea (or a pillow if you r...(read more)

Three Years And Still Going Strong – You Can Make Your Own Mind Up If This Is Good Or Bad

2024-03-02T10:48:22Z

Here we go, another update from this long old journey I’m on (it’s not a journey I’d choose to be on, but I guess it is one). To start with I’d like to say normally I struggle to read or watch anything to do with cancer, I thi...(read more)

June Through To Scan Results October 2023

2023-10-27T10:57:49Z

Much like my last entry as this covers another good few months I have split it into sections again to try and cover how I have been feeling, how treatment has been going and how I’ve been trying to get out and do things. So go grab a tipple of ...(read more)

Jan To June 2023 Start Of Solo Nivolumab

2023-06-10T09:53:19Z

As this section is about 6 months long from scan to scan, I have broken it down into some sub sections, “Treatment and General Health”, “Scan and Results”, “Getting Back To Some Form Of Normal” and “Bowels&rd...(read more)

It Takes Two To Tango – the start of the immunotherapy story

2023-01-06T10:47:20Z

To follow on from my last post, I started immunotherapy, after my first session myself and my wife saw the oncologist on October 20th to discuss how things were going. We discovered these immunotherapy drugs have been around a while; however it is qu...(read more)

The Filler Before Starting Immunotherapy

2022-10-07T09:29:00Z

So here we are, Wednesday 5th October and I am sat typing this out on my phone ahead of starting immunotherapy today. Honestly I am a bit sceptical about this, there is no guarantee it’ll work and if it does work when it will work, add in that ...(read more)

We were on a break.....from treatment - summary of July 22 to mid September 22

2022-09-14T14:17:00Z

Picking up from where I left off last time in this blog I was on a break from treatment, during this break we slowly began to see more people but whilst still being cautious, mainly meeting outside in gardens and on one occasion venturing to a pub ga...(read more)

Chemotherapy Second Time Round – the second 6

2022-07-04T09:06:00Z

For the second round of 6, the side effects have been getting progressively worse, so much so that for the final 2 rounds I was given 50% of the panitumumab antibody drug to try and reduce the side effects (which unfortunately it didn’t do). Th...(read more)

Chemotherapy Second Time Round – the first 6

2022-04-01T08:17:00Z

My second round of chemotherapy started in early December 2021, this time around I am having a different cocktail of drugs, and that means that I won’t have the one from last time that meant I couldn’t touch cold things so a little plus f...(read more)

In Between the News and Starting Chemotherapy

2022-03-15T15:39:00Z

Having gone from thinking I was on the road to recovery to getting the news that I have an incurable cancer was and still is hard hitting, I had just started getting a bit of normal back in my life, going out for walks and going back to work full tim...(read more)

November 2021 – it’s all gone wrong

2022-01-20T10:20:00Z

Before I refer to the title of this section, I will fill in the gaps from my follow up oncology appointment from the 28th October. The pain in my right side has been gradually getting worse as I slept and has been giving me a lot of broken sleep. How...(read more)