bowel cancer Archives | Tales from Paul Lewis

Times I Should Already Have Died

March 28, 2025 No Comments

I’ve known about my cancer since Valentines Day in 2014. That’s more than eleven years! All told, it’s been a bit of wild ride with

March 23, 2025 No Comments

I thought it might be a bit of a laugh to talk about the symptoms I’m getting from having two sizeable tumours in my abdomen.

March 19, 2025 No Comments

By the time that my fifth bowel cancer recurrence became known, surgery was no longer an option. And while this was a hard thing to

March 7, 2025 2 Comments

In my last post, where I learned about my 5th bowel cancer recurrence, I finished by saying how important the next meeting with the oncologist

February 26, 2025 4 Comments

In my previous post I explained that I started working my way out from under my Bucket List Related Depression by doing projects around the

February 19, 2025 8 Comments

First of all, I am sorry that I haven’t posted for so long. In particular I am sorry (and grateful in equal measure) to those

September 27, 2021 21 Comments

On the 12th February 2020, I was told, once again, that there was a new tumour in my liver, thus starting my fourth recurrence with

June 19, 2020 6 Comments

It recently occurred to me that I’ve now been coping and living with my cancer for more than 10% of my life. 12.86%, to be

February 21, 2020 No Comments

Before the 2007 film, of the same name, I’d never heard of the concept of the bucket list. While I never actually saw the film,

July 15, 2019 No Comments

Back in May, I addressed the question of whether artificial sweeteners can cause cancer. I concluded that, no, they could not. I also suggested that

May 20, 2019 No Comments

As someone who who was born in 1970, the question as to whether artificial sweeteners can cause cancer has existed literally all of my life.

March 25, 2019 2 Comments

The only thing that happened to me during March, cancer wise, was a colonoscopy. And because the news is all good, with not even a