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Latest blog posts

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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 511: The tattoo parlour and a wonderful tribute.

  Post 511: The tattoo parlour and a wonderful tribute. But first I should add to the replies yesterday about Doctor- locum’s and Patient notes which seem to be to separate worlds in the cancer arena. Overnight I had prepared in my head two dif...

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Eunice77

  Eunce77

  Two  days  ago  I was referred  for a agent suspected skin  cancer on my right leg 

  Eunice77 16 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Chemo Sixth Cycle, Week Three: Desdemona Is Caged – For Now!

  A frustrating week on the medical side, a fun week on the ukulele side. The good news is that the aching in my lower back and pelvis subsided and by Sunday it had disappeared; the most likely explanation is that it was a ‘flare’ of bone m...

  Desdemona 1 day ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 510: Hey Doc, what are you on?

  Post 510: Hey Doc, what are you on? Is there anything like having a chat to a person that’s fully committed to a bad idea and gives you a load of bullshit about it even though he’s wrong. That was the unexpected twist to my blood test re...

  Mr U 1 day ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 509: I forgot to say…

  Post 509: I forgot to say… How rude of me not to mention my appetite in the last few days, it’s staggering, I’m a food hoover all of a sudden. The sudden and wild ride I’m now on with eating everything in sight was pushed t...

  Mr U 2 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Another Birthday

  January 4 2021 Kilimanjaro 5895 metres above sea level Twenty years ago this morning I stood gasping but deliriously happy at the top of this mountain. So I’m raising a glass to the next twenty and bugger Cancer!

  Beesuit 3 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Coping with Treatment

  January 3 2021 I was going to put a 2019 review up next but talking to somebody on the Macmillan forum https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/head-neck-cancer-forum I think I’ll just put a few words up about treatment in general and ho...

  Beesuit 3 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Happy New Year 2021

  January 2 2021 It just occurred to me that I haven’t posted here for months so the start of a new year seems to be a propitious time. Time to reflect and the mirror for these reflections is deep this year. Not a year to simply reflect on my rec...

  Beesuit 3 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Surviving Covid-19

  May 3 2020 Well we are still here. Matt Hancock the government’s poster boy Time I put some more work into this blog. I have been terribly lazy and not visited here for some weeks so I should get off my backside…or rather on it&hell...

  Beesuit 3 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  And Now For Something Completely Different.

  February 20 2020 Absolutely nothing to do with cancer I spotted this piece on the news today. It gave me so much joy and the hairs prickled on the back of my neck so I thought I’d share https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51553381 ...

  Beesuit 3 days ago