The temperature has plummeted; it’s impossible to enter a supermarket without making your way past a tin mountain of Roses and Quality Streets, and social media seems to be full of angry people ... Read More
A Clean Colon And Bowel?
The Final Countdown, or is it? Dealing with bowel cancer.
I first went to the doctors in January specifically about the change in my bowel habits. Here I am, ten months down the line after 2 major bowel surgeries and I’m now on my final (hopefully) cycle 8 ... Read More
The Cancer Limbo
I wake up with a start. What’s that sound? It comes again, a deep ominous rumble. Thunder? It’s then that I realise what it is. It’s the sound of cracking. The sound that has been haunting my ... Read More
Bowel Cancer Treatment Update: 2 operations down, what next?
Firstly, I’m sorry for not posting an update sooner. To be honest there are several reasons for that. Mainly, that cancer has turned me into some crazy superstitious person who is afraid of jinxing ... Read More
Conversations With My Mum: Bowel Cancer
It’s a quiet Monday morning. We are the only visitors in the garden centre cafe. Outside a grey mist hugs the car park. The mood is subdued. I’m trying not to think about the operation I have coming ... Read More
