Glioblastoma Chronicles

I have a lot of posts in draft at the mo, this is the latest one. My problem is that I can never remember what I was going to waffle on abou...

I can't stop eating chocolate. It's like a weird addiction, I see the biscuit, the biscuit has to be eaten by me. So it is and oh GO...

One thing I've noticed more than anything in this year I've been off work and life is that there appears to be a huge market for cha...

Shall we? Skin - generally okay, though I can see where new hairs are growing how it pushes a kind of small spot-like bit of skin out, givin...

Ha, see, if I call each post the actual day it's published, maybe that will help me.  Though right now my biggest problem is that I thin...

 "GASP! Will we get to use your Blue Badge?!" excitedly asked the teen. I told her it was unlikely as there were plenty of parking...

I think it may have finally happened. I am getting so many appointment letters, so many alerts on the app, so many texts asking me to book a...

I vowed if I was near the laptop and hungry I'd blog, so here I am. I'm SO hungry. I had my usual lunch, I've had a mid-afternoo...

So here we are, another week begins. It's Monday and I have my 'list of things' to do this week (which take forever to get done ...

The dandruff-style effect of my dry skin is back. Every time I move clothes which are touching the dry flakes it's like a mini snowglobe...

Let's keep this short. Straight after the operation I was a bit incontinent. Most of the time I'd get to the loo with time to spare....

Yesterday I had my fortnightly call with the neuro team to see where we are with my various pills and things I need to take.  As I'm man...

You find out all sorts. The teen and the husband both told me things from last October that they had forgotten. The teen, I've forgotten...

I'm pretty sure this isn't the second but guess what? I've forgotten the system I set up. Normal behaviour here, it has to be sa...

I'm back at the hospital next week, and they want to check out my cough. It might be nothing or it might be something. The most extreme ...

I'm not scared, I'm not upset.  I'm not worried. But I can tell you right now that some of the side effects I had at the start, ...

We have company - husband's sister is staying with us for a while. This is a good thing as I'll have someone else to chat to through...

I have moments, moments where it all comes back and the enormity of all this rests itself on my shoulders. Just reminding me that it hasn...

I like how when we get an extra day off, a bank holiday it's classed as a long weekend. It also means I have no radiotherapy on Monday b...

The thing I like the most about Radiotherapy is seeing the scans that they use, and today I had more things explained to me.  So the tumour ...