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Georgie Porgie, oh what a mess,
Out of my depth, I have to confess,
Things that would make a small boy cry,
And princess, that's now passed me by,
When the girls come out to play,
Cover it up and wish it away
My attention span, below the grade,
The jelly belly the chemo made,
The dark days, the stark days,
Bald head for a lark days...
When the girls come out to play,
Cover it up and wish it away
The nurses just don't talk about,
The bottle where the guck comes out,
A re sculpture across...
We decided to tell kee what's going on and why she is so sick. It was probably the hardest thing I've had to do so far in my life, we told her that there was a nasty bump inside her head and that's what's been making her poorly and that's why we have to see the doctors in london on monday.
She asked when the bump will go away and we explained that the doctors will try make it go away, but they might not be able to because it's inside her head. The hardest bit was trying to explain...
Kee wanted to go to school today as she missed her friends yesterday being at the hospital so we let her go in. We obviously phoned in and told the school of our situation, but as she has few symptoms at the moment, I hope she isn't suffering too much. Keeping things normal will hopefully help her, we haven't explained it all properly with her yet, but she knows she is poorly and will have to see the doctors lots.
The lump that I was assured would vanish after my period is still very much in place, still not moored to anything and still no bigger. Swings and roundabouts on the lumpy news scale really isn't it! I have come to the conclusion that if the lump is cancer and they want to 'whop off a boob' as it were that I'll ask if they'd kindly take the other one while they're at it. This would be good because I'd remain symmetrical in my breastless state, there would be less of me to grow new cancer and it'd...
To all you lovely peeps out there waiting to hear what happened at the MDT meeting today, and who are watching my blog – no news, I'm afraid.
Apparently the CT scan was inconclusive – they couldn’t tell which part of the bowel was involved in the fistula, and if they don’t know that, they can’t operate. I thought Tracy, the lovely nurse who called me, was going to say that they would do an exploratory operation to see what was going on, but no, this time it’s an...
My chest is obsolete,
The B cup mass a cheat,
The stitching neat,
A tuck, a pleat,
Yet halter tops still sweet...
I know it was just meat,
And cancer's not a treat,
The boob delete,
Survive, compete,
So am I incomplete?
I entered a competition with this poem, the topic was obsolete and whist the feedback was good, I think the angle was not what had been anticipated.
Reconstruction is always a tricky one, it nearly killed me (a closer call than the cancer actually, twice...) -nothing like a...
Sometimes I think there's nothing else to do but cry and do it hard.
I'm frightened today. It's my own fault for reading the Cancer Research Facebook update about a chap my age who had cancer when he was 15, which he'd found out had come back in February and is now terminal. I donated to his JustGiving page, freaked myself out and then tried to ignore it. My lump is indeed still there (well to be fair it was unlikely to have disappeared in two or three days). I am hoping very much that I just...
i decided to ask my local GP if i could see a therapist , after three years of continual cancer and alot of carrot situations where i have been told by a consultant that this step, whether it be chemo, surgery or radiotherapy, yes ive had them all, will finally knock my pesky cancer on tne head, i thought it was about time, as i have really had enough, and its unfair to let my anger show to my wife as she also been though the mill,
I explained, my reasons to my gp as i needed to express and work...
We see adverts all the time about prostate and breast cancer awareness but not so much about bowel cancer awareness even though it is one of the biggest killers. I think people are shy about going to their GP to talk about their toilet habits when really it is no different to talking about any other bodily function. There really is nothing to be worried about having a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy, both are done painlessly and certainly at my local hospital keeping your dignity. The worse part I find...
Things have been quite insular in ginger land lately, not least because Hairy had a mini rage at Virgin when their engineer didn't turn up and managed to cancel all our services. It was odd being without internet, TV or phone for a while but I quite enjoyed having to keep myself busy and not attached to a device. Err as you can see I am totally sticking to this way of living now they've turned it all back on.
Things on the Hairy front have been strained. He told me recently that our relationship...
