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

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• Wittering away...

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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
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Latest blog posts

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

  Post 554: A little bit more thinking about a lot of pain.

  Post 554: A little bit more thinking about a lot of pain. Oh my Lordy, when the pain comes it comes hard. When the first pill alarm went off at 7am I was already awake as usual and after the stomach liner went down I slid out of bed with a gripping...

  Mr U 5 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Not  a bad wait for meds this morning. The side effects are coming but the high dose steroids are holding them back and very helpful on the back pain. It has  profound effect on the brain fog as in I don't have any. It is treating this ...

  Rowan8a3264 5 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  That was a good appointment now it is done. Got there in good time, found a parking space. Was a bit early but managed to avoid the waiting room with all our lurking strategies. Blood pressure was ok but oxygen was also borderline reading, take deep ...

  Rowan8a3264 6 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 553: The pills must be working a bit…

  Post 553: The pills must be working a bit… After days where I’ve been trying to feel the difference daily of the pain I’m in I can safely say that over the week the pain has definitely dropped. I put it down to the pills Duloxatin...

  Mr U 6 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  Waiting . . .

  As everyone knows, the NHS is in a mess in all four countries in the UK. Too much demand and too few resources. Aside from 'resus' care, there are even waiting lists of several days before assessment in some A&E departments. The power-sha...

  dolphin99 6 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  I 'm on  the high dose of dex and has done my pain levels a shed load of good, I am enjoying sitting comfy and feeling awake. I feel like I could walk for miles until I stand up, that is. The first two doses work well for me and the next one...

  Rowan8a3264 6 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Stress levels down. I am good to go for my Chemo appointment  tomorrow which is the main thing. It was a ruddy awful wait. I got through everything with Mandy so that is also a relief.  At this point I am fairly good at not worrying about t...

  Rowan8a3264 7 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Fourth GP

  By the end of January 2026 my four months on Solaraze had proved ineffective and I therefore phoned the surgery and requested the promised Efudix. I left my call until late morning so that the receptionist could hear me. She mentioned the third GP ha...

  dolphin99 7 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Third GP

  By this point it was October 2025 and as I waited in the surgery for my dermatology review with the third GP I reflected on our previous encounter almost a year earlier. On that occasion, I'd requested an appointment to discuss my colorectal heal...

  dolphin99 7 days ago
• 

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

  Post 552: Plenty of laughter at the laughing fish.

  Post 552: Plenty of laughter at the laughing fish. A long day today had me running around from parlour to work to pub and all were successful and enjoyable. First up and I was showered and fed before heading into the town centre to fight the roadwo...

  Mr U 7 days ago