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• Warm your teaspoon

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Latest blog posts

• Grant’s prostrate cancer Chemo blog

  let’s go and kill some cancer, cycle 1, Day O

  Wednesday 26/06/24 Here I was, flying on the ceiling with lots of Dex tabs running through my veins, outside Scarborough hospital, on a very sunny and hot Wednesday afternoon. I was ready to kill some cancer! This bastard is going to really get it I ...

  Grantyo12 over 2 years ago
• Grant’s prostrate cancer Chemo blog

  Sleep deprivation with Dexamethsone…

  25/06/24 John the kind chemotherapy nurse had issued me with the Dexamethsone (Dex) at the pre assessment meeting. Their purpose is to reduce reaction to the IV Docetaxel and reduce inflammation and reactions when you get home. 8 tablets in total, th...

  Grantyo12 over 2 years ago
• Grant’s prostrate cancer Chemo blog

  Chemo pre assessment meeting

  Monday 24/06/24. To get to this point had felt like a long time coming. All the tests, scans, poking and prodding had led to this point. No more waiting. No more lists or letters. Here we were, on a hot sunny day in Scarborough hospital,  in a r...

  Grantyo12 over 2 years ago
• Grant’s prostrate cancer Chemo blog

  My story up to my chemo beginning to give you the background.

  15/03/24 - I was 56 years old, now just turned 57. I was called in for my old man cholesterol and blood tests. Reluctantly I went to the docs. During the chat. I mentioned that my Dad had prostrate cancer whether the same age as me. It had been cured...

  Grantyo12 over 2 years ago
• Anniversary

  An adventure

  Its June 2024, two years since my routine blood test. Two years after my PSA had increased. In those 2 years I have had treatment for 5 different primary cancers. I’m alive, relatively well and strong, and starting to realize that maybe I&rsqu...

  Pobby over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  Diagnosis- It's for real

  On 15th Feb 2024, I met with my consultant breast surgeon and clinical nurse specialist for the first time. My sister was with me. When I'd told her about my biopsy the week before, she had vowed to be with me, every step of the way. The surgeon ...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  The Scan and Biopsy

  On the day of my follow up appointment. I planned to go alone. There was a lot of activity. A repeat mammogram. A scan and then biopsy followed by a further mammogram to check the marker clip was positioned correctly. It all felt very production-line...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  The Mammogram and the Recall

  My mammogram appointment took place on 24th January 2024 It was 3.5yrs since my last mammogram. It turns out that in all the upheaval of the previous year, I had missed the invitation in Jan 2023... One week later, on Feb 1st 2024. I received the let...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  GP Visits

  On my first visit to my GP,  in the autumn of 2023. I explained my symptoms. He ordered a round of blood tests. In the following weeks, I discovered I had high cholesterol. Everything else was normal.  At this point, I became convinced that...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Shaka For Life

  One Week Since First Chemotherapy

  It's June 25th 2024. It is 1 week since I had my first round of chemotherapy,  only 15 to go. I am relaxing at home,  currently taking a health sabbatical from my work as a self-employed Counsellor/Psychotherapist. Or as I told my clie...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago