Welcome to the hidden costs of being sick.

Since I became too ill to work just before Christmas last year, I have been struggling to get by on Incapacity Benefit ...   more »

What a nice bank HSBC is.

Not only did they spot that someone was stealing my money via a cash point in Malaysia and warn me so that I stopped ...   more »

You know you're having a shit year when you beat cancer, are recovering from bowel surgery and then some twat in Malaysia robs hundreds of pounds out of your bank ...   more »

I had the results of my PET and CT scans two days ago and the great news is that the test for cancer was negative.

I started to feel and ...   more »

Alfie cat died yesterday after regaining consciousness and perking up at the vet’s for a few hours. He was even purring for a while. At 14 he had lived a ...   more »

On Thursday some friends drove me down to Hove to stay at their house for a week and have a break from London where I have been mostly housebound since ...   more »

I posted a new photo to Photos.

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Yesterday I had my second PET scan which should have detected whether I still have live cancer cells in my body or if the two sessions of R-ICE chemotherapy I’ve ...   more »

When you are diagnosed with a ‘serious’ illness like HIV or cancer, you become a bit preoccupied with the meaning of life and start to see signs everywhere. So recently ...   more »

It’s been 5 weeks since my last confession (blogging is the new confessional right?) and not much has changed.

Physically, I’ve now had two sessions of R-ICE chemotherapy and am ...   more »

I haven’t handled the new chemo therapy treatment very well although I am certain something that can make you feel that unwell most be doing the cancer some terrific damage.

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I received a boost today when Flipside, a new dvd from Absinthe Films, arrived in the post. It’s a documentary about the making of their snowboarding film More.
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I should have known that the moment I cancel all my care workers I would start to feel unwell again but that’s where we’re at. I’m trying to be optimistic ...   more »

I should be out celebrating my friend’s birthday in Farringdon tonight but yesterday morning I accidentally kicked a kitchen cupboard so hard that I can barely walk. I think my ...   more »

Today I’m going to have a PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography) where they will inject me with a radioactive tracer and stick me in a big machine which can detect ...   more »

Yesterday I received the results of my CT scan and I haven’t been given the all clear as I hoped. There’s still some of the mass remaining from my cancer ...   more »

Who's cheering me up at the moment? I listen online to the Punk Show with Mike Davies (in the old days it was called The Lock Up... I loved that ...   more »

Despite living in one of the eight richest economies in the world and (when I am well enough to work) having a pretty good job, I am trapped by poverty....   more »