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  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

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Latest blog posts

• Looking after Jay

  Radiotherapy is vile

  Jay managed to get a few weeks of recovery prior to starting radiotherapy.  Every day for 30 days which from what I can gather is a lot.  We’re a little over half way through. Soft food quickly shifted to liquidised food to liquids on...

  DarrenFromBirmingham 4 months ago
• Looking after Jay

  How it started

  Jay was diagnosed with aggressive parotid cancer in December 2025 after being investigated for several months. First biopsies were reassuring “not cancer” was said. False sense of security rolled out, then when it came to removal day, sur...

  DarrenFromBirmingham 4 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 378: Aches in ribs, chest & lower back too.

  Post 378: Aches in ribs, chest & lower back too. I have been worrying about the aches in my body and my continued inability to touch the ground. What I mean is I can’t reach to pick up anything off the floor. It’s a dammed inconvenie...

  Mr U 4 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 377: I do want to get out of bed, but not today.

  Post 377: I do want to get out of bed, but not today. The chicken or the egg? Am I in pain because I’m still in bed, or is the pain keeping me in bed? I started to read something new and online, which I will return to later and finish, but I ...

  Mr U 4 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 376: Getting worked up inside and out.

  Post 376: Getting worked up inside and out. Keeping busy is one sure fine way of how to stop beating yourself up—until you stop. The shredding was done and bagged and sitting there in a neat ball of completion. Happy days. Now what am I going...

  Mr U 4 months ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  Screaming into my pillow

  Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just want to scream  I'm crying I'm swearing  I'm literally tearing my my hair out I'm alone in the house,because,well you can't do this in front of others ,oh no,because you've to be strong.What ...

  RedTree26 4 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 375: Dinner at the pub and Anima (x3) meltdown!

  Post 375: Dinner at the pub and Anima (x3) meltdown! We were just about to leave the house for dinner out when I remembered the sick note I should have already sorted out before now. Bless you. Thank you. My guests decided quickly that it was more i...

  Mr U 4 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 374: A clean up and wax.

  Post 374: A clean up and wax. When I am gripped with the determination to do something, nothing can stop me but my strength. I know I said that I would start my exercises today to start the rehab on my right shoulder—I didn’t really rec...

  Mr U 4 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 373: Confusion and tiredness.

  Post 373: Confusion and tiredness. How is it that last week I had so much energy and this week I’m struggling to get out of bed? Can I really have used up all the calories? Surely not with all the lovely chocolate abounding. Yesterday’s...

  Mr U 4 months ago
• Cancer!! The gift that keeps giving!!

  Thinking to much!

  I sat there and the lovely A&E doctor looked at me with sadness and said I'm really sorry but you have Boney mets!! Is there anyone i can call for you? WHAT???? I only came in for a blood transfusion!! Now once again (3rd time cancer for me) I am...

  LisaM 4 months ago