What the UTUC!

  • TikTok versus K-Drama

    I am excited and grateful!  A few people have been reading my blog, and I only started posting a week ago!  And a couple of you have actually left comments too! I might even get a few followers, like my wife has on TikTok!!!! Now my wife is...
  • My wife, my brother and a doctor walked into a bar..........

    Ah!  The good old three people walked into a bar joke....... So before you consider me frivolous, or inconsiderate, on starting with a joke line on a cancer blog, let me elaborate. When delivering a joke, there are key fundamentals to communicat...
  • UTUC Symptoms - It wasn't the Ribena Berries!!!!!

    Is it a general human trait that we can excuse or pass off symptoms as something else?  Is it an auto denial response, or a fear of a symptom being something more sinister?  Or maybe it is an alpha male issue.  (But girls - even for al...
  • Never quit quitting.......

    Yes, I am a smoker..........or was! I was advised that I should stop smoking to enhance my recovery after surgery.  It is advisable to quit smoking at any time, but for those of you that smoke, or used to smoke, it is a difficult thing to do. It...
  • Motivation and Emotions

    I lived just by the London marathon route and, due to the road closures, there were only two choices for the day of the marathon - stay in, or go down to cheer the runners armed with bags of jelly babies.  On one particular year while I was on t...