On top of the World; Five days on Kilimanjaro, Marangu route.
Ten years after being given an expected life expectancy of 22 months I thought, why not finish the year almost on top of the world on Kilimanjaro
Category Family & Friends
August 2013: End of the beginning, or beginning of the end?
'Your cancer has returned,, has spread, to other parts of your body and is incurable. Average life expectancy is 22 months"; said the Consultant
Given just months to live; then “spontaneous remission”, a miracle or just cancer sense?
Every year I am offered an appointment with an oncologist to see how I am, it’s usually with a registrar rather than a consultant. If it’s one I know I will start the conversation with “don’t look so depressed because…
Reaching 60 years was my second milestone and I realised “incurable” just means the doctors don’t know how to fix it.
In August 2013 doctors gave me a death sentence! With that ” power gaze” the philosopher Michel Foucault described, they took away all hope and told me to prepare for the end. I searched the medical literature for some encouragement…
Informing the children
When disaster hits having people to love is what is important