My cancer, Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma, is a slow to develop and exceedingly rare form of Lymphoma. It’s not, thank goodness, one of those cancers that devastates the body and leaves the poor host to quickly die. When someone famous dies, you may have […]
Well, my #chemo and #cancer sparring partners have the upper hand. My chemo is paused for a week and then the next cycle (and hopefully last cycle) will commence on 14th March. That will be 9 months of chemo I’ll have endured […]
If you want to be an expat in Cyprus, there is one essential thing, more than anything else, you must consider. Where are you going to live. My book, A Pat on his Back, tells the story of our move to Cyprus […]
Cancer is a terrible disease, not something you would wish on your own worst enemy. But it does have side effects, or the cure has, chemotherapy in my case, that have proved quite useful. Those of you who are little squeamish, should […]
I’ve never had a problem with nerves. Never worried about anything. To me, life is too short to spend time worrying. But what I do have, I’m told, is a problem with the nerves in my left leg. Does that mean my […]
As I’ve already mentioned in a previous post, my Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma has got to the stage where my bones are quite brittle due to the chemo. That being the case, pain is an ever-present sidekick to this cancer journey I’m on, and, […]
Walking Away from Midnight Tappity-Tap It was a warm evening and Jessie had decided to leave her two sets of bedroom windows open, to facilitate a breeze into her bedroom. Otherwise, she knew, it would be hard to get to sleep […]
Ever wondered about air and what you would do if you couldn’t catch your breath? Panic I suppose. It crossed my mind, big time, during the Covid-19 Pandemic, and more so when I started to feel extremely breathless around December 2021. I […]
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Shots in the Dark The drive of two hundred kilometres from Paris was going to take over three hours, mainly in the dark. But the Fordhams weren’t bothered with […]
The Ragged Edge of Time Click on #RaggedEdgeofTime to see all available extracts Chapter Four: The Dominator The main deflector dish on Hugo’s flagship, the Dominator, was badly in need of realignment, or so the captain thought. Too much space dust […]