by Stoan | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorised
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...
by Andrea | Feb 21, 2022 | Uncategorised
One of the first things a friend said to me after cancer number one showed up was that cancer will teach you who your real friends are. It’s cliched, it’s passe, but unfortunately, it’s determinedly and unmistakably true. I understood the sentiment...
by Stoan | Nov 1, 2021 | Uncategorised
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...
by Stoan | Oct 31, 2021 | Uncategorised
“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...
by Stoan | Oct 29, 2021 | Uncategorised
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,...
by Stoan | Oct 17, 2021 | Uncategorised
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...
