This will be the penultimate post recounting the first stage of my ongoing experience with cancer. The stage that I’ve come to think of as

In a recent post, I discussed the impact of your cancer on the people around you. In that post, I suggested that, ‘to some extent,

Before my bowel resection surgery, I was warned that I might end up living with an ileostomy bag. As it was, I woke up with

Cancer, when it happens, it doesn’t only happen to the patient, it happens to the other people in the patient’s life. I wasn’t diagnosed with

In the UK, there is a public health service, known as the National Health Service (NHS), which provides comprehensive, universal health care, that is free at

Chemotherapy after surgery for bowel cancer is a lot like chemotherapy before surgery for bowel cancer. And I’ve already written about that.  To which end,

Having woken up with a colostomy bag, following bowel surgery to remove my primary tumour, and deciding that the bags were better than irrigation, it