Recently I had dinner with my father. It has been a long time since we last saw each other, certainly long before my cancer was diagnosed, and I think he must have been anxious to see how I was getting on. The food was nothing much to write about, but we had a fine old […]
Cancer and chemotherapy have made some quite far-reaching changes in both my body and my outlook. Some of those changes will almost certainly be permanent, such as the much shorter outlook on life, while others have been temporary. That second group is the one I’m going to write about today. I have written before how […]
It’s been another relatively quiet week, so this post will be quite short. The week started with a short outing to a local castle called Goodrich. We’ve been visiting it on and off for about 17 years now, so I know it quite well, and was happy to sit in the courtyard while Gillian clambered […]
I saw the consultant yesterday, and we discussed how things were going in general, which is really very well indeed. He was pleased that I was experiencing less pain, and that I now need to take a reduced dose of the anti-nausea medication I’m on. He asked again where I was experiencing the pain in […]
As I mentioned on Sunday, Gillian’s sister (J) and her boyfriend (P) came to visit this weekend. We had a fairly quiet Saturday, and in the evening I cooked a chicken Véronique with locally grown asparagus, which was delicious. It’s a very light, summery dish that I’ve grown quite fond of. The grapes soften and […]
On Tuesday this week Gillian had another birthday — tact prevents me from telling you which one — but we had a lovely lunch at a good local pub restaurant with some of her colleagues from work. It was a surprisingly jolly occasion, given all the stress at work recently. To celebrate in the evening […]
Got the results from the CT scan, and they agreed with the clinical evidence I was presenting, namely I was feeling a lot better, so it was decided that I would receive no more chemotherapy. Specifically, the CT scan showed that there have been minimal reductions in the size of my enlarged lymph glands, which […]
Once again no chemotherapy this week. Nevertheless it has been a fairly quiet week, where things of note included a CT scan, a trip to the theatre and another increase in the incidences of my back pain. The CT scan took place early in the morning, which meant that it was hard to get there […]
We went to the theatre this afternoon to see Agatha Christie’s play Witness for the Prosecution, which was put on at the Malvern Festival Theatre, our local. I don’t think it was one of her best, but it was quite fun, and the actors — a professional touring company — did a good job of […]
Last week it was decided that whether or not my chemotherapy continues would depend on the results of a third CT scan, which the consultant said he would organize. I still hadn’t heard about a date for it so when I spoke late last week on the phone to the Macmillan nurse (who has been […]
