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• Warm your teaspoon

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Latest blog posts

• Cup of Carrot Soup and a Modeling Contract

  Mashed potatoes and my home team

  My first comeback at home.. The first meal at home after surgery was mashed potatoes. Sounds basic. But after a paper cup of carrot soup, a 40-foot Olympic walk in grippy socks, and ICU laughter that almost popped my stitches, those mashed potatoes...

  Bru 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 421: Walkies! (It’s only 18 minutes).

  Post 421: Walkies! (It’s only 18 minutes). I’m fretting over the writing club on Monday. It’s two sleeps and I’m getting plenty of thoughts about how my plan to walk is falling apart, crash bang wallop. It’s not the be...

  Mr U 2 months ago
• Cup of Carrot Soup and a Modeling Contract

  The ICU Comedy Club

    I don’t remember what story my brother was telling me in the ICU. I do remember laughing so hard I thought my stitches would pop. I remember my husband putting his hand out like a traffic cop: “Stop, stop, you’re going to hur...

  Bru 2 months ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Chemo Second Cycle, Week One: Desdemona's Second Date

  Preparation: my Dexamethasone (or ‘Dexa’) has been consumed on schedule and I’m ready for the next cycle. The symptoms from my infection have all subsided, but my gorgeous wife is suffering from a proper bout of flu. She has a very ...

  Desdemona 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 420: Sis & Bro Pop By and Where Are the Darn Bags?

  Post 420: Sis & Bro Pop By and Where Are the Darn Bags? There are some things that somehow don’t get onto the page and I have no reason why. Like the printing of the 400-odd blogs or the sale of my truly lovely Volvo Olive. My Mum’s...

  Mr U 2 months ago
• Willy Wonka’s Nemesis

  My first ever Cystoscopy (Part 2)

  So I enter the treatment room and what can you do but go with the flow? You are in the hands of people who do for a living what you’ve never had done to you before. ‘Name?’, ‘Date of birth?’ ‘Hospital Number?&rsquo...

  Doug07 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 419: Physio Appointment PM Follows a Runaround.

  Post 419: Physio Appointment PM Follows a Runaround Although later today there’s going to be a therapist delve into my right shoulder, which is easing nicely since my little operation five or six weeks ago. But before that I had a possible ph...

  Mr U 2 months ago
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  Community News

  Improvements to the Online Community search function

  The Online Community search function has received an upgrade. It’s now more powerful, and even easier to use. Learn about the improvements in this short blog.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 418: The Realisation…

  Post 418: The Realisation… The U3A is a national organisation offering daytime (evening) classes for those who are no longer full-time workers. In my case—and I bet you’re hoping it might help—I’m going to sample a Cr...

  Mr U 2 months ago
• Willy Wonka’s Nemesis

  My first ever Cystoscopy (Part 1)

  So, because of hematuria, I find myself taking my trousers and underpants off in a small cubicle attached to a waiting room, placing them in the plastic bag provided and donning two hospital gowns, one with the slit up the back and the other more lik...

  Doug07 2 months ago