By Gillian You remember that cartoon with the roadrunner who always outsmarted the coyote? Well, I feel like the latter right now – as if I’ve been running & running and now I’ve run right off the edge of the adrenaline cliff. I’ve looked down and am standing on thin air….. I’d expected that now […]
There isn’t a lot to report this week, although I wouldn’t say that it has been especially quiet. I’ve returned from holiday, had lunch with my sister and discovered that radiotherapy is another, unorthodox, way to get a tan. Our holiday finished on Wednesday, and we came home by train in the early afternoon, arriving […]
By Gillian Today we had lunch with Christopher’s sister, Sophie. We’ve not seen her for some time, and it was really good to catch up with her. She lives the other end of the country, so we met somewhere in the middle in a hotel just off the motorway. The food was nothing special, and […]
Yesterday we got home from our coach holiday in Wales. It was something that we had planned would take place soon after my chemotherapy finished, back when I was coping quite well with it. At that time we were confident that it would be no problem at all, but the later cycles of chemotherapy were […]
My back has been a little itchy recently, so after a quick scratch in the bathroom yesterday I asked Gillian if she could see anything funny about my back. “No,” she said, as I was walking out of the bathroom, “oh, wait a minute, there is something.” She had seen two perfect sunburnt squares on […]
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 […]
