Thoughts and musings on living with cancer from Brighton Biker

5 - Internal Stability - External Chaos

2025-11-27T14:02:36Z

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. An...(read more)

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

2025-05-12T14:04:40Z

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...(read more)

3 - A new perspective on risk and statistics

2025-02-11T19:30:32Z

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...(read more)

2 - Old Father Time

2024-06-12T15:06:36Z

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...(read more)

1 - The start of an unwelcome journey

2024-04-27T09:08:15Z

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...(read more)