By Sunday morning my eyes had started to go a bit yellow, and my skin, under the Christmas tan, was turning a bit Trump orange. You...

After the last meeting with the doctors, and my decision to stay in the UK, my next appointment was Friday just gone. I had spent the...

It may come as no surprise, but cancer can be a right twat of a disease. Just when you think things are going well (or at least are not...

Despite finishing the 1st course of capecitabine on the 30th, the side effects still were messing up my body for a few days after. The...

The Christmas and birthday week has now been and gone. My wife's somewhat-of-a-surprise 50th party went great, Christmas day on the beach...

For the 1st full week of December I headed over to Dublin for work. I had a few projects and tasks that needed to be done before we got...

Social media gets a slating for a wide range of reasons, many of them justified (and the irony of me typing this on a social media...

After the scan meeting, I was killing time until the next meeting with the consultant oncologist to discuss my consent to take part in a...

Since the last blog post we decided to get away for a few days before the next oncology meeting, and on a whim ended up on a long weekend...

I did start writing a post the other day, but never got around to finishing it. So, I scrapped that one and waited until the next cycle...

I had been meaning to write a post for a few days, but after a crappy cycle 6, I didn't really have the motivation to catch up until now....

Last Wednesday we headed to the fortnightly oncologist meeting, expecting results from the intermediate CT scan. In my head I had readied...

It has been some weeks since I last wrote. Readers of the last post will know it all went a bit shit for a few days. I am glad to report...

After Thursday's day-time meltdown, I had a shocker of a night's sleep (or lack thereof) and woke up (sic) on Friday feeling rotten. I...

Before March, death was not something I gave much thought. Sure, I knew it would happen sooner or later. But it was far enough into the...

After the weekend's footballing disappointments, my focus shifted to the last couple of days stay of my sister-in-law and her family, and...

A fair bit of catching up to do this time around, since I realised it has been well over a week since I last managed to write anything....

Monday and Tuesday were rest-days in our summer concert series. I took it very easy both days, still waiting for the possible trough from...

On we went back to the hospital for chemotherapy freshers' day. The session started out with the now-standard weigh-in. The nurse...

The second week in the sun passed all too quickly. Time was enjoyably filled up with a boat trip, visits to the beach, walks with the...