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

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• time for a cuppa....

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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 3 days ago
• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

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• Looking after Mr. B

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Latest blog posts

• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  I have slept a lot. This means at those times I have been fortunate enough to sleep through side effects. More importantly has been the quality of sleep. Some of it has been that exhausted sleep where my body can do nothing else but some of it has be...

  Rowan8a3264 2 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  Bringing Things up to Date

  Today is Monday 2nd November 2026 and this is my first post in real time. It's an opportunity to slow things down after a multitude of memories competed for a place in the previous posts describing my personal experience up to this point. Perhaps...

  dolphin99 3 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 556: It’s my life of little choices that I love.

  Post 556: It’s my life of little choices that I love. My tv mini box in my bedroom packed up in the morning first thing. This meant that I’d need to get up and watch episodes of the Netflix series downstairs. As it happened I had to fill...

  Mr U 3 days ago
• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

  My Meningioma Brain Tumour Story

     My name is Gary and I live near Leeds in Yorkshire, UK. I am suffering from a very aggressive Grade 3 Anaplastic (cancerous) Meningioma Brain Tumour and this is my story (so far).      Back in 2024 I hadn’t fel...

  GaryG298207 3 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Fourth and Fifth Nurses

  I met the fourth and fifth nurses less than 48 hours later. They were a double act and deserve a special mention in this story. They were the theatre nurses whose wonderful compassion kept me going through one of the worst ordeals of my entire life. ...

  dolphin99 4 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Plastic Surgeon

  Surgery on the skin leaves obvious scars, hence the involvement of a plastic surgeon. My son came with me to the appointment the following morning and the third nurse met us with the good news that the surgeon would be able to see me. He seemed in a ...

  dolphin99 4 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Third Nurse

  I visited the clinic several times and usually found it busy. The reception staff were front and centre of visible operations and the coffee in the waiting room was superb. Behind the scenes, the back office staff were always hard at work. Based in a...

  dolphin99 4 days ago
• 

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

  Post 555: I had my feet up all day, when I wasn’t a nurse.

  Post 555: I had my feet up all day, when I wasn’t a nurse. The Bob’s go home today and another holiday is over which means, you can go on another holiday. Cool! The very opposite can be said of us because my Darling and I have our usual...

  Mr U 4 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Not a long wait for meds today. It was the last high dose of steroids last night, they will still be having some protective effect but now will be quite a bump down. I am hopeful that there has been an underlying improvement in my back pain and that ...

  Rowan8a3264 4 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Third Dermatologist

  My first contact with the private dermatology clinic was in the middle of August 2026 when I emailed some initial queries to them. There was no mention of a lab on the website and I wanted to clarify their arrangements for the analysis of biopsy samp...

  dolphin99 5 days ago