Trishka's blog

We arrived at the hospital so early that we were there before the Ward staff - talk about keen. We live on a little island and whilst our hospital is small, it is brand new. We don't have a resident Oncologist - a guy from Liverpool pops over every Thursday and a very nice lady - chief oncology nurse - is in charge whilst he's away. She made us very welcome and allocated us a small private room off the Oncology lounge…

As I sit and write this, my husband is in Mr Fixit mood - he's busying himself around the house, putting up pictures, changing old batteries, watering the plants. He looks wonderful - you would never in the world know or think that he has just been diagnosed with locally advanced bladder cancer. He went to the Dr's because he had a gallstone attack. They did a scan, did a urine test and lo and behold, forget the gallstones…