Peter's Blog

  • Chemotherapy Second Time Round – the second 6

    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...
  • Chemotherapy Second Time Round – the first 6

    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...
  • In Between the News and Starting Chemotherapy

    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...
  • November 2021 – it’s all gone wrong

    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...
  • Feeling Like A Burden

    Again I am not sure if this is a normal feeling, but I certainly felt/still feel like a burden to different people. Wife – I feel like a burden to my wife as she has had to do so much for me throughout all of this, ferry me about to all my appo...