Friday 5th Oct Day 30 and appointment is 4pm this afternoon UK time, woowee!!!!! They have said I can have my mask if I would like it, Hell yes!!!! Wearing it for Halloween, but declining to ring the bell (don’t want to tempt fate, after all this is the first phase). After the scan I …
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Day 18
Another session of treatment today, been given stupid ‘o’clock (6:10pm). I suppose it’s my own fault for requesting afternoon appointments, but when does that time equate to an afternoon? My hair has started to fall out where the radiotherapy is targeting so I have shaved the more hirsute side and gone a bit Peaky Blinders, …
Tiger tiger burning bright
I am giving a shout out to another warrior who has been randomly picked on by cancer. You may hae read, Angus McDonald, a Hull City player, has recently been diagnosed with early stages of bowel cancer. I was born in Hull so there is a tiger always in my heart. Even though I have …
Still kicking
I know it has been a few days since I last posted and I apologise for the failure to keep you updated as to my current situation. Im now on chemo/radiotherapy session number 8 and how am I feeling? Like the rest of the GB Bobsled Team (bored shitless I believe). I still have the …
Treatment begins
So I started the radio/chemo treatment 2 days ago and don’t I feel any different ccurrentky but I know it’s stikkearly days with many more sessions to go. My treatment started on Tuesday by receiving the wrong information as to where to go for my anti-sickness tablet. Turns out too many chefs not enough on …
Treatment
Firstly I would like to thank those people who have communicated with me via Twitter and you are right, the questions asked defy logic and my patience time and time again. This enemy within us effects not just the target host but the support network we have around us and it is ongoing, so every …
Still here
Apologies I have not been on here for a while, I have been using utilising local tradesmen to change our bedroom around. The power behind the throne (my wife) has decided that our loft conversion is a base camp too high (too many flights of stairs), so as our bairns have both now moved out, …
Meeting with oncologist
Well, had my meeting yesterday with the oncologist and my radio/chemo treatment starts on 29th August. I have a pre-assessment with the chemo team on 22nd August to discuss my treatment. For those going through what I am going through I salute you and wish you all the best. The question asked by people in …
Brain Man 