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Toss a coin in the air… Sorry, you lose.
Ok, big deep breath. For me as well as you, none of this is particularly joyful reading and its totally shit to have to write. I'll try and keep it short (likely to fail!) My medical status is currently: Back: The MRI shows I have fractured a vertebra low down, at the bottom of my lumbar…
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More old cobblers
Now where did leave you with the thrilling exploits of my entirely falling apart old body? I'll skip to Thursday this week when Prof admitted that the earliest date that I could get a scan at St Georges, with sedative would be – next Monday. So a whole 8 days after the initial incident, exactly…
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The 7 Year Itch
Well, its exactly 7 years to the week since I last spent time in Parkside – and clearly my time was up. Got here on Monday afternoon expecting to have my 4th radiotherapy session with Hawksey, followed by an MRI on my lower back to work out why we'd had to call the ambulance out…
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Well, that was a different start to the day..
Backs. Little buggers. Able to produce the sharpest pain you will hopefully ever feel in your life. Or preferably never feel. And now, the newest arse-factor to add to my list of non-desirable life events. Friday night, went to bed as usual. Woke up in the night with a massively sharp pain in my lower…
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Two down, three to go
Well, so far it's been pretty straight forward stuff. I head for the lower ground floor of LCC – previously uncharted territory – get changed and then spend 15 minutes to get all the tattoos lined up while I am on the mega machine, and to have them play a quick game of noughts and…
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This Made My Day
I was waiting at home for someone to pop round this afternoon, when the bell rang a bit earlier than I'd expected. Hauled my sorry ass to the front door, to find a delivery fella standing there with a right old whopping box. The entire thing wrapped in brown paper, like a big old-fashioned present.…
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Radiotherapy
Just chased the buggers – always a joy to pursue people to tell you what the hell is going on with something rather important – and it so far seems that there will be 5 radiotherapy sessions: Wed, Thurs, Fri this week and Mon & Tues next. So – better than 10 but who knows…
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An update that’s not much of an update
Ah – you know things are going less well medically when the stats on my blog readership suddenly go through the roof, having languished for many a year now. The irony that my dull medical shit is far more compelling a read than my varied and very exciting social life, lovely friends & all the…
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And today’s news.
Well, it's been another busy – and somewhat surprising – day in the sunny world of the charmingly named London cancer Centre (aka Parkside). Had a very nice morning cuppa and a bircher muesli (although the bacon sarnie was calling me VERY loudly) with Claire White this morning in our halfway house of Costa, Sainsbury's…