The Bag for Life 

Well-known blond, Irish warbler Ronan Keating famously sang in his big pop tune of May 2000 that life is indeed a roller coaster, and you...

I very nearly died in the early hours of Tuesday 20th August 2024. I got sepsis; it was swift, frightening, aggressive, relentless,...

I had the good fortune recently to visit the orthopaedic hospital in Birmingham, having been on a waiting list for 43 weeks, and now at...

Now I do not know about you, my dear reader chum, but I am finding that as I get older, it is the small things in life that cause the...

A press release about my journey with cancer has recently been published by the South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust. You...

In my adolescent years, I had a mate of mine called Eamonn Martin. One of the things that we used to do was make up our own version of...

The Bard himself famously said that life is but a stage, and we are all but players on the stage. Well, the older that I get, the more...

As my good friend Noah, the nurse, delicately uttered the magic words "slight scratch," he seamlessly inserted the needle into the vein,...

I used to enjoy playing Bingo once upon a time in this strange and wonderful world that I have lived in for 63 years. It was a different...

Over the course of my 4 years and 6 months of living with cancer, a lot of kind people have said to me: “So, if you don't mind me asking,...

And so it came to pass, my dear chums, that yesterday I had my 82nd dose of chemotherapy and what a strange case it was. Basically, 4...

One of the benefits of being a rather sad, old, English gentleman like myself, is the fact that even though technology allows us to have...

Forrest Gump famously said “Life is like a box of chocolates.” Now, I honestly have absolutely no idea what that means, but I always...

When I first started writing these blogs back in late 2018, I had absolutely what was going to happen, or indeed what I was going to...

When I was a young punk, living in Birmingham in 1977, I would regularly go to gigs in the city centre. Watching the likes of The Clash...

So, today my dear chums was on reflection a landmark day, I do not know if achieving 70 doses of chemo is a lot, or a little, and if...

As I write this blog, I am watching the mortal remains of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II leave Balmoral castle for the very last time, as...

When I set off on this little journey to explore what the side effects of the chemotherapy actually do to you physically, across, well,...

Following on from the first part of my journey exploring what the side effects of chemotherapy are and what they are actually like. I...

I often get asked what having chemo is really like, and my reply is consistent: the chemo itself is actually quite manageable. After 68...