So I'm less than an hour into 2010, I'm drinking very expensive pink Moet, and watching (the utterly gorgeous) Paloma Faith on Jools Holland's Hootenany. And I just got to reflecting on 2009, and at a prompt from a friend, I thought of the things I've acheived in the last 12 months ( Read more... )

Oh, and you know when you get some good news, and it makes you smile for a bit?

And then when you get some really good news, that leaves you smiling mysteriously all day?

I'm currently breaking into random bursts of nervous laughter, this latest bit of news is so good... ;-)

Well, it's been a while, but that's because nothing really big or earth-shattering has happened to my genitalia since my last post ( Read more... )

So my medical notes now tell all the nurses at the oncology centre that I have crap veins which are really hard to get a cannular into. I don't know - you have ONE little incident where your body goes into shock after the third unsuccessful attempt to get a line in to take blood, you pass out and have to be brought round just ONE time, and you end ( Read more... )

I thought it was about time I posted about something other than me and cancer ( Read more... )

Well, I had my first appointment with the oncologist today. He said that following the pathology report and the blood tests and stuff, if they just did nothing and kept an eye on me, I'd have a 20-25% chance of a relapse within five years. If I have a single course of "low-dose" chemotherapy, then they can reduce those odds to between 2 and 5% ( Read more... )

I feel really fucking guilty. I've got my follow-up appointment with the urologist tomorrow, where I should find out what the full details of the tumour they removed are, coupled with what the blood test and the ultrasound showed. When the registrar booked me in for the surgery, he listed risks on the form, like the possibility of post-op ( Read more... )

And I'm starting to get fed up with it. The internal bits seem to have healed up quite nicely, although any sneeze or cough which catches me by surprise still feels like someone jamming hot nails into my stomah. It's the healing incision that's causing the discomfort now. I was bit concerned, because the skin around the 3-inch incision was a ( Read more... )

Well, the anaesthetic's worn off, I think, but the cocktail of Tramadol, Codeine and lovely lovely morphine is hanging in there. Sadly I couldn't persuade them to send me home with painkillers that would make me forget my name, but I have a box of Co-Codamol and some anti-inflammatories, so I should be ok. It's not as painful as I expected, ( Read more... )

So - I'm heading in to hospital tomorrow lunchtime, and I should be home again in the evening. I'll still be groggy from the anaesthetic though, so I probably won't get myself online until later on Friday. As soon as I'm able to, though, I'll let you know how it went ( Read more... )