Hello, you lovely people. I promised a post-scan-results update, and here it is. Sorry it's taken a while - we managed to squeeze in a few days away which was bliss and not conducive to blog-writing. A couple of nights in Cirencester (who knew what a nice town it is?!) and then four nights near Hay-on-Wye courtesy of some very, very kind friends who have a lovely holiday cottage there. Wifey, doggy and me had a fab time. Thank you so much, H&G - sooo appreciated and enjoye

A couple of days ago, I was in intensive care following liver surgery. There were a lot of tubes and machines that go ping. Since then I seem to have made fairly good progress and the number of tubes and machines that go ping has dwindled. Today is Day 2 of recovery and thus far it has been pretty gentle. We're heading in the right direction - the numbers that should be getting lower are getting lower and those that should be going up seem to be going up, which is encouraging

Hello lovelies Just to let you know that surgery went very well yesterday and Rich is making great progress. They removed 50% of the liver (the left lobe) as well as the gallbladder (which is/was attached below the left lobe) but didn't do the ileostomy reversal. His torso now looks like he's been in an altercation with (a dyslexic) Zoro, he is collecting scar like its in fashion (someone please tell him...). He is now out of intensive care, is eating and has even been for wa

Bonjour. A little update, as things have progressed very quickly this week. It would appear that I shall be having the liver tumour (along with about 30% of my liver) removed on Monday. As in, the day after tomorrow. Yikes. The sentence was handed down earlier this week when Bekky and I went to see the liver surgeon in London. The MRI and CT scans I had undergone the previous week showed a very modest reduction in the size of the liver tumour, no current sign of cancer in the

Late last year, Bekky and I watched a fascinating and eye-opening documentary by Adam Curtis called Hypernormalisation. It was long, meandering and obviously only portrayed the view of the documentary maker himself which may not be entirely accurate. But it was a fascinating view nonetheless. The BBC iPlayer gives the following description: “Our world is strange and often fake and corrupt. But we think it’s normal because we can’t see anything else...” While our little world

When I last wrote, you might recall, we had a definite plan: wait for an operation date, get everything done in one sitting, go home, recover, and that would be that. We have, however, come to learn through bitter experience that all goal posts within this particular journey are seemingly infinitely movable. Now that’s not to say anything entirely disastrous has cropped up, but not looking beyond the next confirmed appointment (or even the Next Corner...) is definitely the wa