Still here

Blog number V or five or 5, or 🖐. V, the worst Rocky film of them all by a long way. It's watchable, but ultimately forgettable and cack.  Free week from chemo! So, that's 6 doses over the last 8 weeks of poison dripped into my arm. Usually and historically, I'd be half way through - they usually book me in for twelve doses, which is roughly four months. However, I've got a sneaky feeling they may keep me on it (if it's working) or switch me to the "Big Guns". The "Big Guns" is a regime of chemo I've done before and it worked at some shrinkage here and a mop up there, but it was brutal. A scan around dose nine is then followed by a chat with my oncologist to tell us what's happening and next steps. For now, nothing to report. No news is good news 'n' that. 😊 I love this week; I don't necessarily feel any better physically, but mentally it's such a relief to not have to go to the Phoenix unit in Sunderland, sit in that ch...

January 13th 2023  Weird. Yesterday I wrote the date for the first time and didn't note it with a comment to myself or someone near with something like, "eeeh, first time writing 2023." or "Nearly wrote 2022." Weird. Just me? Hmm... So, day two of blogging...here we go. I say 'we' because it feels like I'm actually chatting with someone...you. Honestly. Weird. Using that word too much - that's three times now. Weird. Milo: I mentioned Milo in my last blog and should probably introduce him. This is Milo: *you'll note here that I've just realised that you can add pictures. Still learning. 😉 Milo is awesome. We've had him for around a year and a half and got him from my brother Darren (the oldest of my siblings - more on all of them as we blog). We actually got him for free from Darren and we will always be grateful for that generosity and the gift that is Milo.  He's been such a wonderful and surprising addition to our family given...