And so it begins
It was with great enthusiasm we looked into the arrival of 2020. After a rather awful year for Linda and not much going on for me, 2020 was starting out really well. Linda settling into a new job and I was getting getting a whole load of web projects to work on.
2020 was going to be a great year!
Just a few days into January it all came tumbling down.
I was diagnosed with throat cancer.
Squamous cell carcinoma of the throat to be precise.
The Winner Takes it All I’m not doing a happy dance, nor a victory roll but I am feeling cautiously optimistic. We’re in a card game. We can only progress when certain cards come into play and right now we are waiting for the second card to be dealt. When that happens and more importantly,…
I before me except after you A roller-coaster week. So much has happened and much of it seems like a blur. I find it difficult to place what happened on which day and now, here we are at Sunday…was last Sunday only a week ago? There is so much to do and I’m struggling to…
A moany post! Cold, Wet and Nasty A cold, wet and nasty miserable day today! Cold, wet, damp, gloomy….if you imagine we live in a sun-drenched paradise then please come and visit North West Florida in January. It can be just as downright unpleasant as anywhere I know…. That said it is supposed to be…
24 Little Hours What a difference a day makes…. Yesterday was horrendous. Absolutely horrible. Both Linda and myself were exhausted, worried , in despair and upset. Last night wasn’t much better, sleep came easy for a while then quickly descended into panic and misery once awake. Then things got a little brighter. I spoke with…
Faith and Hope – But No Charity Tuesday 28th January Faith and Hope but as yet no Charity…The picture above was taken in the restroom at the Hope Radiation Cancer Center. One step forward but many questions remain. We saw the Oncologist this morning and although I guess I knew what the treatment would be,…
Friday Ramble Cancer sucks Of all the words in the English language ‘You’ve got cancer’ must rank amongst the most feared. Cancer is the bogey man, cancer is the Black Spot, cancer is the kiss of death. It is also unfortunately quite common. In 2018 there were 1,735,350 new cases of cancer in the US.…
A few words before we start Today was PET scan day. After a less than wonderful sleep I mosied up to the Hope Radiation Cancer Center in Lynn Haven…..at least I mosied up to where the GPS thought the Hope Center was and being astute enough to realize the hurricane damaged buildings probably weren’t what…
Healthcare tragedy I know there is a lot of unhappiness with the state of the NHS in the UK and whilst I have some…actually not much..sympathy for those who complain, it is still an amazing service. In the United States there is NO universal healthcare. What does that mean? It means that every individual has…
Time – The most precious thing A little Monday evening ramble….. We can give time, we can take time, we can spend time, we can waste time. We can keep time, we can lose time, we can do time and we can have time. We can do a lot of things with time except one.…
Frustration Frustration is running high, about to get higher… I will add to this post as the week progresses…. Having waited anxiously through a long weekend I contacted Dr Beggs office this morning. I informed them that I still hadn’t received an appointment for a PET scan. About 10:00, Lisa from the Dr Murchetts office…