Having unexpectedly woken with a colostomy bag, and then choosing to continue using colostomy bags over irrigation, it was just a case of living with
When I finished secondary school, in the dim and distant past of both the last century and the last millennium, we had a School Leavers
Waking with a colostomy bag after bowel surgery was something of a challenge. But the next one was just around the corner. Deciding on whether
Earlier this week, I took Emma up to the Brecon Beacons for our last training walk before our attempt at the National 3 Peaks Challenge
After my bowel cancer surgery, waking with a colostomy bag was something of a shock. Particularly as I’d got my mind around the idea that I’d
Today was the last of the GCSEs for Emma. It also marked her last day of school, but that’s another thing. Emma is part of
My bowel cancer surgery was on 28th October 2014. This was seven months after I learned I had cancer, on the colonoscopy table, on 21st
Coffee is a wonderful thing. Half of the world seems to run on its caffeinated goodness. How else are we supposed to kick-start our mornings?
A great many fans claim theirs is the Greatest Ever English Football Club, but most of them do so more out of hope than expectation.
Complications of liver surgery are uncommon, but they happen. My liver surgery had gone so smoothly that I was home after only two nights in
May half-term. The perfect time to get in a holiday. Get everyone together and head off somewhere interesting. Or exciting. Or new… But; not any
Liver surgery for bowel cancer is a strange concept to get your head around. Stranger, still, in my case, was the decision to do the