Well. Had a meeting with my surgeon today. Instead of the original estimates of a 7-hour operation followed by a hospital stay of 7 to 14 days, where they might try to send me home after 5 days it now looks a bit different. Because they want to put in a tracheostomy for various reasons […]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
Operation inflation
March 22nd, 2019 · Comments Off on Operation inflation · Life
Tags: Medicine/Health·Statistics
2001 – Me Gustas Tu
March 17th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2001 – Me Gustas Tu · Life, Music
After the false start of 2000 the decade started to perk up a bit in 2001, which is when the pedants would insist that the decade started anyway. It perked up musically and it perked up personally as well.
Tags: 1962Onwards
I finally got a date
March 15th, 2019 · Comments Off on I finally got a date · Life
Had a phone call from the hospital. They have had a look at the results of my CT scan (good news – the tumour has lost a lot of mass, although it still give me problems with eating) and fixed a date for the big operation where they take a big chunk of my oesophagus […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
2000 – Music
March 15th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2000 – Music · Life
The year 2000 is another one of those years when I wish I had never started doing this because it wasn’t a great year for music. I hoped for more from the new milennium. Yes I know that, strictly, the millennium starts in 2001 but the general feeling is that it started in 2000. And, […]
Tags: 1962Onwards
First world problem
March 13th, 2019 · Comments Off on First world problem · Life
One of the many side effects of the ECX combination of chemotherapy is that skin on the hands and feet can get sore or red and can peel. Amongst all the jargon and technical terms this particular side effect stood out because of its blunt, Ronseal ‘does-what-it-says’ name: “hand-foot syndrome”. I did have several of […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·Technology
Health update
March 9th, 2019 · Comments Off on Health update · Life
This is one of my irregular health updates, for anybody who is interested. Chemotherapy has finished now, which is a huge relief. I was getting very bored with dissolving all those tablets and injecting them down my jejunal feeding tube. I was also a bit bored with having a permanent cold, feeling tired & dizzy […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
Another dodgy Brexit analogy
March 8th, 2019 · Comments Off on Another dodgy Brexit analogy · Life, Politics
Last year we helped our daughter move house. She was downsizing from the flat she had been sharing with her brother, into a tiny bedsit in the city. We had hired a van so drove it down to Hampshire and when we got there we expected everything to be as it was when we last […]
Tags: Brexit
Normal service
March 4th, 2019 · Comments Off on Normal service · Life, Work
After a couple of months of absence and working from home, I went back into work today. I don’t think I will be in all day, every day, but going in on a Monday morning is an attempt to get back to normality. Of course it is only temporary. Either I will be going in […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
Music to see you off
March 4th, 2019 · Comments Off on Music to see you off · Life, Music
I have been to a couple of funerals in the last couple of weeks. Both very different. One was a biker’s funeral where the music at the service featured early Cliff Richard and Johnny Cash. The other was a Roman Catholic service with lots of hymns and some Irish music, but right at the end […]
Tags: Death
Diet madness
March 2nd, 2019 · Comments Off on Diet madness · Life
Everybody seems to be doing some faddish diet or other at the moment, but the one our son is doing is really getting to me. It is a high-protein diet with no carbs, which seems to be entirely meat and eggs. A typical packed meal to take to work is grilled chicken breasts and gammon […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
