Up the Back Passage

09 May 2019 - Thursday Eh? I mainly wear contacts. Bingo! Got a date! Well not a date date - Clare wouldn’t be too happy about that. But got a date for surgery at St Mark's - Sunday 19th May. Odd as I came away from the St Marks meeting and spoke to a few … Continue reading 7. Bingo

8 May 2019 - Wednesday Bottom Burps - Gas. Flatulence. Cutting the cheese. Breaking wind. Barking Spiders, Stepped-on ducks, Whizpops. A quick update, today as I have a lot to do. Firstly, the hospital specialist I saw yesterday was excellent. A very nice man, whose consultations were running 75 minutes behind by 11:15. Clare and … Continue reading 6. Bottom Burps

3 May 2019 - Friday *For school, Zara has to "Dress as a Decade", apparently my old 80s jacket scared her. I learnt that she doesn’t like tassels. "Russ" - in the language of my postman - means Juice *I learnt how to pronounce "caecum". *I learnt this cancer is no big thing..... So, the … Continue reading 5. What did you learn today?

2 May 2019 - Thursday The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 was the shortest war in history. It lasted 38 minutes. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-shortest-war-in-history.html So today, for me, has also been a day of small victories. Mandy at my surgery returned this morning to my call at 0915 (well the first was at 0902 but she wasn’t in … Continue reading 4. Small Victories

It's only 15:30 today, but I look back at my outgoing phone log. Hospital - 14 calls; Private consultant - 2 calls; Own GP surgery - 5 calls; GP - 1 Video appointment. I'm just trying to get my 2 CT scans across to the private consultant. Apparently because they are private they can't request … Continue reading 3. I like cats, but not herding them

30 April Update Not sure my nurse looks like this Yesterday I spoke to my nurse contact at my hospital. She'd obviously been on a patient care course. When we both spoke at the same time, she would apologise and say, "Please go on". She did confirm I'm on the list for discussion tomorrow, she … Continue reading 2. Will Lewis Hamilton take the lead?

28 April 2019 - Sunday So it seems there is payback for a life of abusing your body with fizzy drinks, pasties, saveloys, bacon sandwiches, cooked breakfasts, lunch-time processed meat sandwiches, etc. Maybe I should have eaten more greens. So I found out on Friday that I have Stage 3 Bowel Cancer. Bowel cancer ranges … Continue reading 1. Finding Out