A Rather Peculiar Sort of Day
Today has been rather an odd sort of day. I thought that I'd share some of it with you. I'm not sure why but I think that if one believes that a trouble shared is a trouble halved then a trouble...
View ArticleThe Start of a New Blog
This is an unashamed, self-indulgent Blog. I say that by way of explanation and without apology.When I wrote the words that are the first posting on this Blog it didn't occur to me that they might be...
View ArticleA Friendly Face
My praise for the NHS continues: it took half a day on Monday for the NHS to arrange for me to visit the Urology Clinic which I did this afternoon. I saw Mr Bramwell (who visits once every blue moon -...
View ArticleFor Want of a Nail
I started off the last posting by saying that my praise for the NHS continues. What a shame that I can't say the same 8 days later.I rang Mr Bramwell's secretary in Raigmore yesterday afternoon to ask...
View ArticleFaith Restored
I decided last Thursday afternoon to email Mr Hollins and tell him that Mr Bramwell had referred me and that he wouldn't be getting the letter for a while. Within hours he'd emailed the radiologist and...
View ArticleIn The Meantime
Life in what passes for my mind has returned to normal and most of the time I don't even think of what is happening or what is to come. There is so much 'nothing' to get on with. For the most part it's...
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A Rather Peculiar Sort of Day: Follow Up
On 18 May last year I wrote my first post on this blog. One of the elements was me driving my car backwards into a young lady's VW Polo. I never did a follow up to the posting. I should have done. I...
View ArticleThe Spectre Looms Again
Just under twelve months ago I wrote of the day that I received the news that my cancer was making an attempt to re-colonise this edifice that I call my body. Subsequently, after bone and MRI scans I...
View ArticleWhat is Normal?
I commented to a friend earlier on today that if she could define 'normal' (in relation to what doesn't matter for this purpose) she was a better man than I am Gunga Din (with apologies to Kipling)....
View ArticleA Mixed Message
Having spent 6 days trying to adjust to being back in Scotland I set off for Glasgow on Monday 11th. On Tuesday I went to Ayr hospital and had scans. On Friday I went back to get the results. The...
View ArticleReality Kicks In
Blogging is just so therapeutic. Yesterday when I received the appointments schedule for the six weeks of radiotherapy (I've realised that it's one word not two) the reality of the whole situation hit...
View ArticleI've Been Tattood
I've never really been one for tattoos. OK, so other people have tattoos. Of course in New Zealand it's the norm and I just accept it but it's taken me a while to get used to just how many girls and...
View ArticleWhere The Sun Don't Shine
I start radiotherapy (in case you didn't know that!) in a couple of weeks' time. Am I apprehensive? I would have said absolutely not. But who knows what goes on in the human mind? Certainly the actual...
View ArticleAnniversaries
I am writing this before the 4 June because I know that, on that day, I may not find the words.On this day back in the mists of time I was born. I'm not sure how I felt about it at the time but I'm...
View ArticleA Beguilling Service
I went to a funeral yesterday. Actually it was billed as "A Celebration of the Life of Audrey Clare". Audrey lived in the township (village). I first met her many years ago (probably about 35 when I...
View ArticleA Good Day And Some
I mentioned a few posts ago that I was going to the Beatson Centre during the summer for radiotherapy treatment for the recurring cancer resulting from the escape of cancerous cells after my operation...
View ArticleAn Attitude To Life
As I mentioned a few days ago I have received Good News about my cancer. I don't fool myself that it's gone. I've been here before and cancer never actually goes completely. But it looks as though I'll...
View ArticleThat Sort of a Day
Do you ever get to a point in a day when you just can't decide in which direction to go? Well this evening is one of those evenings for me. I played croquet this morning. It was a doubles match with...
View ArticleSadness Strikes Again
It’s happened again. And very unexpectedly. This morning I had a very happy time. Wendy came down early on to say goodbye to their friends who have been sleeping in my spare bedroom. We’d had a...
View ArticleI Went To Church Today
I decided to have a ‘quiet time’ when I was in Napier this morning. I have never been in a church in Napier except for a funeral. Unfortunately one can’t just take refuge from the hectic, noisy world...
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