Day 17 – Pain in the Heart
I don’t remember sleeping that night, it was hard to get comfortable (they still couldn’t get a suitable bed so I was on a flat trolley...
Fears & Flashbacks
It’s nearly 6 months on now and to those who don’t know me or haven’t heard what happened, you wouldn’t be able to tell there had been...
Day 16 Back on my feet
Woke in a lot of pain so the morphine PCA (patient controlled analgesia) was my favourite new toy. I was more than happy to get rid of...
Day 15 Jelly & Morphine
I spent some time in the recovery room until a bed was found back on a renal ward and I found myself in another 6 bed bay. I was still...
An Unfashionable Cancer
Less than 3 weeks before I collapsed and was diagnosed with kidney cancer, this feature in the local paper Tamworth Herald was published....
Day 15 Goodbye Kidney & Cancer its Surgery Time
It was a fretful sleep, worrying about missing the alarm as well as the obvious, my first operation. It was snowing so we left earlier...
Days 7-14 In Limbo
Going home was very emotional as I’d left 6 days earlier not knowing I had cancer and never expecting a stay in hospital. Seeing family,...
Day 6 Rude Awakening 3 The Eviction!
Following my Q&A session that morning I was told that pending blood test results taken earlier I may be able to go home later that day....
Dressing up and feeling down
Before I continue with what happened next I thought I’d skip forward again to the here and now and how the day to day is feeling, minus...
Day 6 Questions Answered – It’s Kidney Cancer
At this point I had seen several doctors and a consultant along with different registrars on ward rounds but still hadn’t received any...
