Of doctors, healers and medical engineers

Doctors and a lot of the medical profession have changed, care is no longer what the principles of oath intended. Not only has care become commercialised but also more strictly technical, which is expected with the gains in technological solutions over the past few...
How chemo is

How chemo is

I don’t suppose there is a right way to react the first time a doctor uses the word chemotherapy, if there is I have not been read in.  You can’t write about cancer without using some clichés. So, here’s one: nothing prepares you for hearing any of...
Day Seventeen

Day Seventeen

“That’s when it gets real.” The doctor was explaining the side effects of chemotherapy and we got to the question of losing hair.  As if the numerous, brutal and unrelenting  effects that chemo inflicts on your body and mind hasn’t made it real...
The lies fear tells

The lies fear tells

Fruit salad.  Emotion fuelled thoughts become chopped up and fragmented, layered in a haphazard spectrum of extremes and moderation.  Some thinking you do on purpose and some thinking happens to you.  The thinking you do on purpose you can keep measured and guided,...
Free from matter

Free from matter

Matter, noun Be of consequence, have meaning, implies something, has influence and considered of value. Substance – what physical objects consists of are composed of Surbarance I will do nothing, there is nothing I have to do about it.  It will only matter if we...