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Latest blog posts

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

  Post 288: Treadmill, back pain and a beautiful Prom dress.

  Post 288: Treadmill, back pain and a beautiful Prom dress. A Saturday with my Darling on annual leave is rare, but this day is not a day for going out, it’s a staying-in day doing chores like the washing and shopping. But the day started with...

  Mr U 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 287: Exercise first and coffee last.

  Post 287: Exercise first and coffee last. By midday I was panting a bit after a twenty-five minute stint on the treadmill. It’s been too long that I’ve been away from any kind of exercise, and I really need it now. For the last couple o...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• TOTAL PELVIC EXENTERATION for recurrent endometrial cancer

  My Story So Far (May 2020 to Jan 2026)

  I have had a really tough 5 years – cancer diagnosis and then being told 3 times that the cancer has returned, despite having undergone different recommended treatments.  I am now having to make a decision that will be life changing not on...

  Shaz 33 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 286: Did I ever say…

  Post 286: Did I ever say… I love you. My Darling is nibbling her way down to 1.75 stone off her weight, and her BMI that was so high before is now a respectable 26.75, heading to her goal of 26. This feat of determination has been achieved ...

  Mr U 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 285: Doc tomorrow, should I stop HT?

  Post 285: Doc tomorrow, should I stop HT? Staring up at the pitch black ceiling with my eyes open, I start to see big shadows in the light from I don’t know where. Tomorrow I get to see the doc. What do I say? I pick up and hold my phone as m...

  Mr U 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 284: Nothing to see here…

  Post 284: Nothing to see here… The Canary Islands After the beautiful Lord Mayors show I’ve begun to feel so very low It’s not enough to tell doc I really don’t need pills full stop Off to where the sun shines hot Using up...

  Mr U 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 283: oh happy day…

  Post 283: oh happy day… My smile is wide even through the frustration and enormous cost, but the end is so worth it. Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time — I’m having a ball. Only the bank manager was havin...

  Mr U 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 282: s4a — Survivalists 4th age.

  Post 282: s4a — Survivalists 4th age. s4a Decrepit, Dissolution with Dignity. So where do I start explaining why I’m all for pigeon-holing myself in this new definition of the last stage of life. Many of you are not in the s4a yet and I&r...

  Mr U 7 months ago
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  One Life Live It

  Penultimate Zometa

  It's that time again!   But it's winter, and it's cold and my veins are even less likely to want to play ball.  I got up on the morning of my infusion, dressed in multiple layers, armed myself with a hot water bottle and gloves,...

  Irishgirl16 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 281: Honesty, dozing and a cheese and onion panini.

  Post 281: Honesty, dozing and a cheese and onion panini. A text came in today from a kindly soul who deserved better than my all-guns-blazing reply. She had only asked how I was doing in a very friendly way that was without nosiness and full of kind...

  Mr U 7 months ago