Cancer Dad Archives | Tales from Paul Lewis

Dealing With Thinking You’re Dying

July 27, 2026 No Comments

Speaking of thinking you’re dying, this post is later that expected because things haven’t gone that smoothly this last week. As a result of which,

July 10, 2026 1 Comment

In March last year I wrote a post entitled (500) Days of Life. In this post, I talked about how long I had left to

July 1, 2025 No Comments

Okay, so it’s been about three months since my last post. I’d been hoping that, by getting back into a regular posting schedule over February

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 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

July 6, 2020 No Comments

In October 2019, a paper was published in the American Cancer Society Journal called, Exercise is Medicine in Oncology. And, as we all know, medicine

July 3, 2020 2 Comments

I started doing weekly posts for Chubby House Hubby, back in April 2018. The main reason for this, was as a diversion from the other

June 29, 2020 No Comments

After the full month of SABR Radiotherapy treatment that was May, June 2020 has quietened down and involved a whole lot of nothing very much…

June 22, 2020 No Comments

In February 2020 my scan results revealed that I had a tumour on Lobe 2 of my liver, and thus began my fourth recurrence. The