Thoughts and musings on living with cancer from Brighton Biker

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  • 4 - Fighting the good fight: the body as a battlefield

    BrightonBiker
    Our bodies are amazing. Some estimates suggest that a million times each day our immune systems destroy mutated cells which might otherwise have become cancerous. A million times! That equates to over 11 times every second. It's no surprise that som...

  • 3 - A new perspective on risk and statistics

    BrightonBiker
    As Sarah’s eyes widened and an expectant hush simmered in the room, I knew that this was a ‘big moment’. As any teacher will know, a ‘big moment’ is when a spontaneous silence arrives in a classroom and everyone is liste...

  • 2 - Old Father Time

    BrightonBiker
    Reading the amazing, heartbreaking book ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ by Paul Kalinithi has made me think about the concept of time in relation to an advanced cancer diagnosis. I’ll be coming up for my one-year-diagnosis-anniversary in...

  • 1 - The start of an unwelcome journey

    BrightonBiker
    My name is Andy, I am 45 years old, and I have f***ing prostate cancer. Somewhere in the fog of doubt, worry, and the attempt to carry on with life as normal, I am here, floundering and trying to make sense of it all. It’s been nearly four mon...
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