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The last month has been a hard one mentally and physically seeing two stints in hospital and time off work. There seemed no way forward and no way out, I was bathed in gloom. But as I have been told EMBRACE every day as no one day is the same and with the signs ofContinue reading “Spring, kiwis and Masai Warriors”

I suppose that’s what I will call it but really there was for some time after Christmas and New Year there really was nothing to say. It was winter we were in lockdown and the world seemed to have stopped once again, except this time we couldn’t potter about in the garden or do theContinue reading “WRITERS BLOCK”

Sorry that I haven’t posted for a while. Treatment has been ongoing, that luckily didn’t stop with trips to St James Hospital Leeds for SABR radiotherapy which finished last Tuesday. What has followed that is a wave of lethargy which I cannot explain, it grabs you, envelops you and then spits you out the otherContinue reading “Will it get any better…?”

Well you would think that when the treatment stops that it would be happy days and that any adverse reactions you get to your medication would stop. WRONG, some only increase and I am here at nearly 2.30 am not being able to sleep yet again on the sofa watching TV! Insomnia wins yet againContinue reading “Side effects”

The tortoise or the hare – which ones comes out first? I have never been quick, you have should have seen me in a race always one of the last, when I did the London Marathon I think I could count on both hands how many out of thousands that were behind me. I wasContinue reading “When things just come together”

Not often I don’t have a lot to say but for the last couple of weeks I haven’t really. Treatment started back at a lower dose and no major side effects jumped out, this i was eternally grateful for. Lockdown came into effect on November 5th and we were placed into confusion again. My appointmentContinue reading “When sometimes there are no words!”

Coming to terms with everything that happened last week wasn’t going to be easy, in fact I sat down and wondered how I could carry on. I always said that “him up there” must have given cancer to only strong people because weak ones would never cope with everything that is thrown at them butContinue reading “Mighty Oaks……”

There is only two certainties in life – one is that we are born and that we will at some point die. Nobody ever knows if we are going to have a short life or long one, we just hope that it be fulfilled and be full of love. Love comes in many forms –Continue reading “Living on borrowed time”

How things change in 5 years! You look back on what you were doing, clothes you were wearing, TV programmes you were watching and even mobile phones you were using and everything is different sometime scarily so. Yesterday I went to sign my consent for treatment at my local hospital Airedale near Keighley. Google saysContinue reading “Here comes the Battle Bus”

A lot is written about mental health at the moment, the Royals have taken it on board and even this week Philip on This Morning has been talking about his own struggles – he says “Its surprising how you think you have a grip on everything and then your head takes you to a scaryContinue reading “Mental Health and TIME”