Surgery 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 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

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

April 5, 2021 9 Comments

In my February 2021 post, I lamented that I still hadn’t had the surgery I’d been waiting 12 months for. I even went so far

March 26, 2021 2 Comments

These last 15 months have been some of the strangest in my life. The fourth recurrence of my bowel cancer started in January 2020, and

March 19, 2021 No Comments

Back in 2019, through a combination of diet and exercise, I managed to lose a whole bunch of weight. In early 2020, however, I got

March 1, 2021 2 Comments

Towards the end of my January update post, I said that I hoped February 2021 would, “deliver the surgery, and really get 2021 off to

January 29, 2021 No Comments

Whereas December 2020 had been a month dominated by questions, January 2021 was when I started to get some answers. Given the low bar set

January 1, 2021 4 Comments

December 2020 started really well. Not least because of the news that I got on the 1st, telling me that I seemed to be coming

November 30, 2020 2 Comments

In my October 2020 update, I said that I hoped to have a date for my surgery during November. But that didn’t happen… I did,

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

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