Good news today , my CT scan came back with no abnormalities. The enemy is sleeping – or has gone away. And I get to continue on the road to recovery. Thank you Dr K & H, for all you’ve done.
Good news today , my CT scan came back with no abnormalities. The enemy is sleeping – or has gone away. And I get to continue on the road to recovery. Thank you Dr K & H, for all you’ve done.
There’s a line in the Crosby, Stills and Nash song “Long Time Gone,” that goes:
The darkest hour is always
Always just before the dawn.
For me the darkest hour, can stretch way past dawn; from the moment I awake, to the moment I dial my consultant’s secretary. It’s a cruel time, when distractions like online news and reading e-mails, are simply that – distractions.
It…
I’ve used this title before: in the blog I started to keep at the beginning of treatment; the blog that stopped in February 2012 and was accidentally trashed.
Time did not actually fly, it stopped that February. I had my third round of chemo, and was ill for the rest of the month. I was sleeping for hours at a stretch; the remaining colour from my face drained and what was left of my short term memory was…
Back in November 2011 I started a blog, www.pastthirteen.com . I was still in the “phoney war” phase of my treatment. The tumour was gone, and I was pretty much recovered from the operation. I had time on my hands. There was the matter of a clot, nestling deep in my Inferior Vena Cava; but by then I was on regular Fragmin (anticoagulant) injections and close to having a filter fitted. The prospect of a Pulmonary Embolism…
Testicular Cancer is sometimes dismissed as one of the more trivial Cancers. A highly treatable and survivable cousin to the others; a quick and effective surgical procedure followed by tough regime of chemo. A rosy future of routine checkups and blokey missing-ball jokes then follows; Cancer fading into a sepia sunset.
A tough-gig is how a friend reacted when I told him about my Testicular Cancer, and somehow this simple…
