reflections from a gp, who just happened to have bowel cancer
26th March 2020 As the Corona crisis deepens and we brace ourselves for the inevitable storm, it has been hard to ignore the call to arms. 15,000 retired doctors already contacted to re-join the troops. There is no escape from
Read more19th March 2020 I have never really experienced anxiety before and I find it an uncomfortable place to be. I don’t even think that the anxiety itself was particularly overwhelming (it wasn’t until these last few days…), it is the
Read more14th March 2020 I appreciate I only have myself to blame for how it happened. It was Sunday the 24th November 2019, Sh** Sunday, as it has come to be known. I’d found the mass the previous Monday. I’d had
Read more9th March 2020 Do not underestimate the potency of cancer anger. It hit me a month ago and it hit me hard. It came unannounced and floored me. And I’m still angry. I should have been expecting it. The whole
Read more4th March 2020 So this isn’t where I intended to be! The last 3 months have been a little interesting it’s fair to say. At 39, I wasn’t expecting to be diagnosed with bowel cancer. I wasn’t expecting to have
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