Discombobulate is one of my favourite words. It sounds just like it feels. To be discombobulated is to have lost your sense of balance or...

I'm sat in the lounge while the rest of the house snoozes (except for diligent Dan who is at work, freezing somewhere on the side of a...

Yesterday, I preached at church for the first time since my diagnosis. Even though I've written about my cancer journey at length here,...

And so the reprieve continues - five months since I last had chemotherapy, I'm still off treatment. Following my last post (apologies...

I've been off chemo for over three months now - by far my longest treatment break. Some days I feel like a ship unmoored and adrift in a...

It feels like a lot of mileage has been covered - literally and metaphorically - since my last post almost three weeks ago. Since then,...

Tomorrow (Friday) Lisa and myself will board the 7.14am train from Lichfield to London for an appointment at the Royal Marsden hospital...

It was 2,500 years ago when Greek philospher Heraclitus famously said that the only constant in life is change - and nothing has changed...

And relax... A strange sense of stillness has descended (internally at least - I type this as Macy and her boyfriend Charlie are...

By the time this post goes online on Friday I'll have hit my half century. I'll be also hitting my fortnightly chemo slump so it will be...

Tomorrow will be the first anniversary of the discovery, and confirmation, of my cancer. It was my debut (and only so far) colonoscopy...

Yesterday was chemo cycle 21. I was in and out of hospital in what felt like a flash; just over three hours, which may be a new record. I...

This week Lisa and myself travelled to Burton hospital for my scan results. The third 'staging' CT scan I've had since my diagnosis, I'm...

I thought I should give a short-ish update after last week's post about the disappearance of the bulk of my white blood cells....

I'd never heard of a 'neutrophil' before I had cancer. Now my well-being, and diary planning, depends on the little bleeders. For...

Hi, it’s Lisa, Pete’s ‘better half’ or ‘his wife’ as I’m also partial to be known! It's been nearly ten months since Pete was told he...

I realised, as I lay in bed the other morning, that this will be my 50th Christmas on this planet. That's a lot of Christmases -...

As mentioned in an earlier post, Radio 4's Today programme is the perfect remedy for insomnia. If I've been awake in the early hours due...

Sitting on the sofa with a warm cat on my lap, Mogwai slow-marching through the speakers and grey drizzle dropping outside, I'm searching...

It's been quite a week, including getting my latest scan results and my next treatment plan, plus running my first 10k since chemo...