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Date April 11, 2016 Author By RLG Category Journal
The Alien Within… (A personal experience of Cancer…) In The Beginning It started with a cough… (Or did it?) My story began, or so we thought, after another annual bout of Man Flu around March 2015. However, thinking back, an earlier indicator may have been my eyes. The Eyes Have It… In January, I attended more »
Read MoreDate January 3, 2016 Author By RLG Category Journal
It is now… It is hard to believe, looking back, as we did on the 24th December 2015, Christmas Eve, it was exactly 6 months to the day since my Cancer diagnosis was made 24th June 2015…
Read MoreDate September 28, 2015 Author By RLG Category Journal
Grow stronger… Or so the story goes! And you have been absent from my life far too long, for which I apologise. Damn tingly, numby and rather painful digit tips.
Read MoreDate September 17, 2015 Author By RLG Category Journal
Extended effects… I had rather hoped that the week’s humpday, Wednesday, was going to be the turning point for this week’s slump, unfortunately not so. Thinking logically though, if it can take six months to a year to clear the effects of an entire session of Chemotherapy from one’s body, it is somewhat illogical to more »
Read MoreDate September 16, 2015 Author By RLG Category Journal
Microwaves were made for this… Since as far back as I can remember, my ground based extremities have been a bit weird, much like the rest of me tbh. Why is this? Well, I simply cannot abide my toes being exposed, waving nekkid in the air, without touching something, or being covered with something. I more »
Read MoreDate September 15, 2015 Author By RLG Category Journal
Heads, Hands, Feet & Bumpsy Daisies… Extremities are a bit weird! For the most part they dangle from other parts, whilst capable of the most intense touchy feely sensations. Extremities: Late Middle English: from Old French extremite or Latin extremitas, from extremus ‘utmost’. (Courtesy: OxfordDictionaries.com) Mine are certainly living up to the intense sensation element more »
Read MoreDate September 14, 2015 Author By RLG Category Journal
Sleepless in Seattle Stilton (again!)… Seems the cumulative effect is making its mark, for last night, even very late on I was not at all tired, among other things… When I did retire, much later than normal, sleep seemed to avoid. My heartbeat seemed to thump harder and harder, louder and louder. My calves were more »
Read MoreDate September 12, 2015 Author By RLG Category Journal
Pop goes the weasel… That norty blister did not disappear overnight, even though Jilly padded it with cut plasters to make it a bit more comfortable.
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