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Latest blog posts

• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Feeding tube news.

  I have now heard that the operation to put my feeding tube in will be on Monday 24th Nov.  Back in 2013 I had the PEG feeding tube.  This time I am having a RIG.  Sounds very similar, main difference is that the insertion procedur...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Busy phone day

  Today was the first day this week when neither of us had phone or hospital appointments booked.  So we decided to make the most of it.  H went out to catch up with friends at a social group this morning.  Actually it used to be my week...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Counting, counting

  When I started this blog, the theme has been counting: counting down the days and chemo cycles, all mirrored by what is going on in the garden. It's been a while since I last posted, as this time, I've been captivated by the falling leaves, w...

  WalkerGirl 10 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Early start today

  We went to bed at 9.30pm last night in readiness for an early start this morning.  We left at 7.15am to get to the hospital for H's pre op assessment appointment at 8.30am.  It's only 20 miles away but we don't have an...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
• 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...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 10 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  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...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 201: Green Leaves.

  Post 201: Green Leaves. Autumn sadness fills the air Showers of rain with deep despair Fallen leaves are orange and gold Reminding me I’m getting old On days like this I stop and think Of winters left time gone too quick With words unsaid the ...

  Mr U 10 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Pre-Op Assessment

  H tells me he's had a text this morning saying he has a phone appointment this afternoon to do his pre-op assessment.  He's very pleased as he thinks it will save another hospital trip.  I'm a bit baffled by ...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  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...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 200: Taste Cumbria and the Mighty Hike.

  Post 200: The Mighty Hike My Eldest surprised my Darling and I this evening after supper with an announcement of some magnitude. He will be walking on next years MacMillan Mighty Hike June 6th 2026 and both of us couldn’t be happier and more...

  Mr U 10 months ago