Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death In 2025, the focus for cancer vaccines is on continued clinical trials, particularly for personalised mRNA vaccines and therapeutic vaccines. The NHS Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad is fast-tracking patients with head and neck cancer into an mRNA vaccine trial using technology to train theContinue reading “NHS Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad”
Tag Archives: prostate cancer
Holly Butcher (1990 – 2018)
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. I recently read a blog by a young woman, Holly Butcher, who has now died aged 27 from cancer. She was offering her ‘final piece of life advice’ — written the day before she died. It caused me toContinue reading “Holly Butcher (1990 – 2018)”
Sick Note Me
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. [As] my cancer has spread (metastasised) to 5 other areas, including my lungs, I completed a month, 4 weeks, 20 days (with weekends off), Radiation Therapy. At the same time commencing, for the first time, Hormone Treatment. After anContinue reading “Sick Note Me”
A Crazy Day!
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Monday 3rd, a new [heart] appointment, a repeat, CT Angiogram with Calcium Score. Wednesday, 5th arranged to run consecutively 3.00pm the Royal followed by a 4.00pm Radiation session, Clatterbridge, Cancer Hospital, Liverpool (next to the Royal Liverpool Hospital). TuesdayContinue reading “A Crazy Day!”
Radiation Therapy
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Radiation therapy, also known as radiotherapy, is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy rays, like X-rays, to kill cancer cells and shrink tumours, either alone or in combination with other treatments e.g. hormone drugs, chemotherapy even surgery. Radiation therapyContinue reading “Radiation Therapy”
It’s a Marathon not a Sprint
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Fighting [living with] cancer is absolutely physically exhausting, and mentally devastating not just for the person but for those close to them. Knowing it will never, fully, be beaten, but rather, how long will you be able to outrunContinue reading “It’s a Marathon not a Sprint”
The ‘NHS’ Wheels Turn Slowly
Life– Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Sick Note Me – Medical Update Advanced Prostate Cancer – Advanced to Lungs/other organs (Awaiting Further Scans to inform new treatment plan moving forward). Chronic Diabetes – Diabetic Neuropathy- Feet/legs Chronic Psoriasis/Eczema – Biweekly Immunosuppressant Injections Coronary Artery Disease – Mild MitralContinue reading “The ‘NHS’ Wheels Turn Slowly”
Time to Sell
Life– Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. We [myself and Gail] have co-owned 65 cars together. Gail’s current daily, a sexy 595 Abarth is ‘Reynolds’ car number 63. The maintenance and administration of our cars is exclusively my domain. Over time I have built a close circleContinue reading “Time to Sell”
Sick Note Me
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. I don’t usually post, specificity, regarding my own medical conditions. However, as many of my ‘closest’ will read my blogs it can be an effective way of keeping people up-to-date. It does feel a tad impersonal, this way, andContinue reading “Sick Note Me”
Scan Season
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Living / Dying with/of Cancer Scan Blood Test Consultation Twenty-third of December Two-thousand and fifteen, what will be, nine years ago this Christmas, I was informed by my GP that I ‘probably’ had prostate cancer. My world changed. MuchContinue reading “Scan Season”
Dying to Live 