This story caught my attention on the radio news this morning (“UK’s high rate of avoidable deaths linked to NHS woes”) and I think the headline is more than a bit misleading. Read a bit further and it says “The UK had one of the lowest levels of life expectancy – although the study acknowledged […]
Entries Tagged as 'Cancer'
Avoidable deaths
June 26th, 2023 · Comments Off on Avoidable deaths · Life, Politics
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
Paranoia time again
February 6th, 2023 · Comments Off on Paranoia time again · Life
Tomorrow I have my regular three-monthly-ish post-cancer outpatients appointment – the first one in almost two years that will be face-to-face rather than on the phone. Back in September I had an annual CT scan to make sure everything is still OK and I have spent the last three or four months happy because I […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
Second attempt at normality
May 12th, 2019 · Comments Off on Second attempt at normality · Life
So this is what has been going on with my little health issues. On Easter Monday I was allowed home after my big operation. This represented a really quick recovery because it was a massive operation. Actually it was more like a stomach operation + a chest operation + a tracheostomy, all lasting about 12 […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
Back in one piece
April 21st, 2019 · 1 Comment · Life
It looks like that cancer thing is over now. Still to be confirmed, but it is all looking good so far. I went in for an operation to remove the tumour, along with a big chunk of my oesophagus, on April 10th. After that I spent about a week in intensive care before getting released […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
January health update
February 1st, 2019 · 2 Comments · Life
I know I said that I don’t intend to bang on about my experiences with cancer, but will indulge in the odd update for those who are interested. The story so far (TL;DR version): after increasing difficulty swallowing I got diagnosed with having a cancerous tumour in my oesophagus. Various scans confirmed the diagnosis and […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
Food, glorious food
January 3rd, 2019 · 1 Comment · Life
Things are very much looking up as far as food is concerned. In the summer I was finding it increasingly harder to eat. More and more things became impossible, until I got to the point where all I could manage was Weetabix and soup, and then I couldn’t manage Weetabix any more and could only […]
Fantastic Voyage
December 19th, 2018 · Comments Off on Fantastic Voyage · Life
I don’t want to bang on about this cancer of mine, and will try to avoid doing so, but a thought struck me the other day. In the last few months I have had an endoscopy, an ultrasound endoscopy, a laparoscopy, a CT scan, a PET CT scan, and MRI scan of the brain and […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health·Science
Unwelcome growth
November 28th, 2018 · 2 Comments · Life
The tl;dr version: I have some cancer, but it will probably all work out in the end. To expand on that a little…
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
