I'm still listening to Ajahn Brahm, usually in the bath first thing in the morning. Cancer cells die or get damaged above 40 degrees C, so I tend to follow a regime in the morning of, tea, toast, Tumeric capsule, Omeprazole, Digestive Enzymes, Omega 3 - 9 and then relax in a 45 degree C bath with a 600ml Smart Water bottle with a Berrocca. Who knows if any of this does any good but it seems to be the level my body needs…
Sorry, another day another blog. The last 24 hours have however been so emotional for me that I felt I had to get the events down or I would soon forget the rawness of them and the feelings they generated inside. As I mentioned yesterday, we have really not been accepting visitors to the house other than family. Last night David and Mark visited around 5 and stayed for a couple of hours. I'd been speaking on and off with…
I was contacted yesterday by a Bupa counsellor Joanna, a lovely mannered lady who specialises in the mental therapy of accepting and dealing with cancer diagnosis. In all fairness, it was me who spoke for around an hour and I think Joanna struggled to get an odd word in here and there as I opened the lid on the bottle marked 'Emotions' in my chest. The outpouring of thoughts and emotions felt good at the time. I described…
The last 2 weeks have been a blur and I promised myself that I would keep those who had some interest in this saga up to date with all the comings and goings of my mind and body via this blog. Having said that however, I realise that the general rantings of a middle aged, ginger haired Scottish bloke can sometimes at times become tedious and superfluous to normal folk's everyday life. If this becomes the case, I apologise…
So today we met with Dr Hosney Yosef our Oncologist at Ross Hall. Before we got there today I had done a bit of research on him and as well as having an OBE in light of services to cancer, he had also graduated from the University of Cairo in 1965. I have no idea what age Dr Yosef is but I joked with him asking why he hadn't retired. He just said that is was because of the shortage of staff in Scotland - wow I thought…
