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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On top of the side effects of chemotherapy, there can be complications. The complications of chemotherapy can be both intense and unpleasant. Not everyone has
My first experience with chemotherapy was far easier than I’d been expecting. I had my intravenous drip, felt some mild nausea and experimented with the