The Bag for Life 

So, here I am, my dear friends. It is 02.45 on Thursday July 22. The daily temperatures have been record-breaking for 5 days solid and...

It is a strange quirk of fate how we find ourselves drawn to music of different sorts. No rhyme or reason as to what we might like or...

Truth be told, some days are frankly a bit frightening on this journey with cancer. And in truth, 9 days out of 10, I never bat an eye...

Monday, May 3rd, 2021 saw me celebrating my 61st birthday on a day that witnessed some truly wild and inclement weather. Part of me...

So, picture the scene: it's a lovely hot April evening and I am doing a spot of shopping in my usual supermarket. All is good. I've just...

So, here we are, a day or two after the bank holiday that has celebrated the resurrection of Christ. For me, if honest, I have in the...

So, here I am. It's been a long time, or so it seems, since I last wrote a blog. My world got turned upside down again on February 2nd,...

Time spent with dear friends who are supporting my third battle with cancer is absolutely priceless.

At the beginning of February 2021, I found out that my level 4a bowel cancer had returned for a third time. This was a tough blow, but as...

There is a classic line in literature that says: it was the best of times and it was the worst of times. Yes, you get points if you know...

I've had a stoma since September 2018, when I was unexpectedly diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer and had to undergo emergency surgery....

2 weeks ago I was diagnosed with bowel cancer for the third time. This week, I started back on the chemotherapy and medication regime.

The Bag for Life saga continues with the very recent news that cancer has returned in 2 places and yet again, I find myself on the eve of...

Before I was diagnosed with level 4a bowel cancer in September 2018, it would be fair to say that if truth be told, I was not a huge fan...

Hello my dear chums, I recently wrote my top ten good and bad review of 2020. It was a challenging and enjoyable task in equal measure....

Hello, my dear chums! Well, here we are on the brink of a brand new year, after one of the most challenging and disturbing years in...

It is, quite frankly, quite difficult when I take a step back and try and reflect on all the events that have occurred in this awful and...

So, it is three weeks to the day since I got the “golden ticket” phone call from my oncologist to tell me that the CT scan I had had...

Well, my dear chums, it is 02.00 in the early hours of Tuesday, 10th November 2020. As usual, my insomnia has come to visit me once again...

I finished my last course of chemotherapy 3 months ago and last week I had a CT scan. Next week I will find out if the bowel cancer has...