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Latest blog posts

• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  The calm before the storm Ciara

  February 8 2020 It’s the beginning of February and our mild winter is morphing into proper winter. We have storm warnings that we should actually expect for this time of year. Even so the newspapers are full of apocalyptic warning. Batten down ...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  First Anniversary

  January 23 2020 One year, one whole year has passed since I scrambled off the linear accelerator treatment table at the Singleton for the last time. I have had a year of incredible ups and downs, of pain and joy, of delight and horror but I’m s...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Acupuncture - the experiment has started

  December 21 2019 A couple of weeks ago I had my first appointment with Alison. She is a lovely lady and we hit it off straight away, swapping tales of CND experiences of our youth; my one Aldermaston march (cheating by just doing the Trafalgar Square...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Honey

  November 27 2019 Honey is good for you, miles better than sugar. Naturally produced, raw unheated, unrefined honey with the pollen unfiltered has vitamins, enzymes, antioxidants aplenty. Most honey is significantly antibacterial.Some people swear by ...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  10 Months on

  November 25 2019 Yesterday was my 10month anniversary, or to be more precise 43 weeks and 3 days since my last radio session. While my general fitness marches on I am still working hard on the saliva front. I can manage most foods, needing a drink w...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Christmas is Coming

  November 24 2019 This last couple of days I have been wrapping presents for the Radiographers on LINAC 1 and the Head and Neck Nurse Support Team at The Singleton Hospital There’s a bottle of Prosecco and a jar of our honey and I might add som...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Immunotherapy

  November 24 2019 More ammunition Yesterday the BBC reported was some excellent news about a drug trial for head and neck cancer that was advanced, had recurred or had spread. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50507069 In a trial, pembrolizumab kept h...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Getting Fitter

  November 20 2019 Today I woke up to this Sunrise on 20th November 2019 The day proved to be a Shepherd’s Delight not a warning. The sun shone and it certainly made me feel alive. Time to get out of this pit of indolence and get fit again. I u...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Proton Therapy. The future

  November 8 2019 Mooching around the internet, as you do, I found many articles from USA hospitals about Proton Therapy. Quality of life is so important especially as so many younger people are being diagnosed, cured and living for many years with the...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Onward and Upward

  October 27 2019 I am now nine months post treatment and on two month check ups split between the surgeon and the oncologist. On my latest visit I asked about checking my thyroid hormone levels and my carotid arteries. Radiation to the neck can destro...

  Beesuit 1 month ago