Allpeachy's blog

In case it's of any help to those newly diagnosed, here's my personal experience - though everyone's is different, and hopefully without my little blip through my ignorance/subsequent neglect in hospital the first week!

Hi all There's been some discussion recently about the meaning of remission, and Ray's blog about the AA man has made me think too about it. Like Ray, I have also been in 'remission' for coming up for 15 months. But I have a problem with that word, rather loosely used in public circles. My own oncologist doesn't use it, he says he is pleased that currently there is 'No Evidence of Disease' (NED as it is known). Remission…

I would like to share with you a wonderful poem, by an equally wonderful lady who has been fighting bowel cancer and secondaries for the last 6 years. JOURNEYWOMAN I hadn't planned to go travelling when - without warning - they sent me on a journey to a land with no maps. Sometimes I go on foot, climbing slow stairs to the top of towers. On other days I find myself blurring through…

I thought this might tickle you, especially tongue in cheek following a recent spate of misunderstandings in the written word! Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will you let…