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Latest blog posts

• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 8 — The Seizure

  We arrived at Thornbury Hospital just before seven in the morning. It didn't feel like a hospital. Not in the way I'd come to know hospitals over the preceding weeks. We were shown quickly into a private room — comfortable, calm, more ...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 7 — The Night Before

  The information about the Gamma Knife procedure arrived over the following days, and the whole thing began to feel increasingly surreal. Sheffield's own hospital couldn't accommodate the procedure in their schedule. When that happens, the tre...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 6 — The Wobbles

  I'd been asked consistently, throughout every medical appointment, about my balance and my strength. And consistently I'd batted the question away. I'd had sciatica before all of this started. A bad shoulder. I'd even booked myself a ...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 5 — The Plan

  Wednesday and Thursday passed in a blur. Following the advice of people around me, I spent much of those two days doing things that felt simultaneously necessary and surreal. I sorted out a Lasting Power of Attorney. I updated my will. I built a docu...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 4 — Day Two

  After the shock of day one, and the MRI that never happened, we were back at Castle Hill the following morning. We took the kids to school at the normal time. Nothing unusual, nothing alarming — just a regular school run. At that point they kne...

  Phild26 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 390: An easy day can flip in an instant.

  Post 390: An easy day can flip in an instant. I’m so bloody fed up I could cry. Today started off ok with the car auction place emailing me with the photos and the advert for my Volvo’s sale. There was a problem with the advert write-up...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Pre-Chemo Appointment: Desdemona's Wake-up Call

  I'm currently waiting for a second blood test, they missed my HepB check on the first go around, having just returned from getting an ECG. Good news from the first blood test, my haemoglobin up to 101, from 79, but I had to have two blood transfu...

  Desdemona 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 3 — The Phone Call

  It was a Monday. I was at work. I'd felt wobbly for a few days. My balance had been off and I'd noticed a struggle with driving that I'd been quietly ignoring. That morning, typing had become a real challenge — my left hand wasn't cooperating i...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 2 — The Ultrasound

  The appointment came through for the 1st of March 2026. A Sunday. Five o'clock in the afternoon. I play football on Sunday evenings at half past six, which meant my primary concern — and I say this with full awareness of how it sounds in hindsi...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 1 — The Lump

  It started with a lump. I'd been on a weekend walking trip with colleagues in the Lake District in September 2025, attempting something called the Buttermere Round. Twenty of us, varying degrees of fitness, united by good intentions and the kind of o...

  Phild26 3 months ago