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• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

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Latest blog posts

• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Pre-Op Assessment

  H tells me he's had a text this morning saying he has a phone appointment this afternoon to do his pre-op assessment.  He's very pleased as he thinks it will save another hospital trip.  I'm a bit baffled by ...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  UTUC Symptoms - It wasn't the Ribena Berries!!!!!

  Is it a general human trait that we can excuse or pass off symptoms as something else?  Is it an auto denial response, or a fear of a symptom being something more sinister?  Or maybe it is an alpha male issue.  (But girls - even for al...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 200: Taste Cumbria and the Mighty Hike.

  Post 200: The Mighty Hike My Eldest surprised my Darling and I this evening after supper with an announcement of some magnitude. He will be walking on next years MacMillan Mighty Hike June 6th 2026 and both of us couldn’t be happier and more...

  Mr U 10 months ago
• Journaling my cancer journey through poetry

  New poem - 'Well' and what it means

  Hello everyone, I hope this post finds you all doing OK?  My thanks to folks who have provided feedback and encouragement regarding my last poem called It’s All in Your Head.  This feedback is very much appreciated. As promised, pleas...

  Twin Castor57b5d5 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 199: Rest day for me, but not for my Darling.

  Post 199: Rest day for me, but not for my Darling. Stood on a bridge made to last Water white and very fast Dreaming of a cup of tea But first I need another pee ——— For me, it was a rest day at our hosts’ house to get my l...

  Mr U 10 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  Never quit quitting.......

  Yes, I am a smoker..........or was! I was advised that I should stop smoking to enhance my recovery after surgery.  It is advisable to quit smoking at any time, but for those of you that smoke, or used to smoke, it is a difficult thing to do. It...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 198: Over the hills and far away.

  Post 198: Over the hills and far away. I’ve ended the day-out with legs like tree trunks and a burning pain in my chest where my rib is broken. ——— I’ve been in bed now for seven hours, and the leg swelling is easing...

  Mr U 10 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Husband's biopsy not done

  We went to the hospital this morning for H's prostate biopsy which was to be done under local anaesthetic.  Unfortunately it did not go to plan.  The procedure apparently starts with the insertion of an ultrasound probe into the rectum....

  Margaret853 10 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  The colour red

  The colour red: capecitabine had a sting in the tail for me this cycle; all had been reasonably OK until the last few days of the tablet fortnight. That nasty palmar-plantar side-effect seems to get me every time: sure enough, the colour red began to...

  WalkerGirl 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 197: Travel chaos on day one, heading north.

  Post 197: Travel chaos on day one, heading north. The cases are packed — we’re off on the train. The platform is busy, but we all wait in vain. The Victoria flyer has passed right on by, Leaving us swearing and ready to cry. —&mda...

  Mr U 10 months ago