Here’s to turning 58 today – over the hump of the mid-50s and now plummeting inexorably towards free bus-pass eligibility 😱 I’m not a...

David and I have taken part in an ongoing campaign by Merck Healthcare (“ embracing carers ”) to highlight the role that caregivers play...

Like waiting for buses, they all seem to come at once. This week I got results back from (i) CT scans looks for evidence of cancer in...

I’ve just received the results of my latest CT scans done at the end of May, covering the 6 months since stopping immunotherapy late last...

It's 07:30 am, and over a 100 people are congregating in a field in sub-zero conditions in the small Yorkshire village of Hardraw. We are...

It’s been just over two years since I started immunotherapy treatment for Stage 4 head and neck cancer, and what a roller-coaster two...

tl:dr don’t get CT scans or bloods analysed the week following a big race!! Two new posts are coming up before 2023 is over. This one is...

It's not often I get to talk about running for over an hour to a captive audience (😃), and I'm so grateful to Francesca Goodwin from...

On Tuesday I saw the consultant oncologist for the first time in ages to get the results back from my latest scans. In fact she was the...

While immunotherapy continues to do its stuff, keeping my stage 4 cancer in check, my interest in challenging ultras deepens. My original...

I started and stopped this blog post oh so many times. Part of me wanted to do an update on what’s been happening with my treatment, and...

Living with long-term cancer has led to me having numerous interactions with the Oracle Cancer Trust, the UK's leading national charity...

As far as cancer treatment goes, it’s been an uneventful 3 months since my last post. I’m tolerating immunotherapy well, although a...

One certainty about having Stage 4 cancer is that life is way more unpredictable. The rollercoaster analogy of riding the highs and lows...

2021 has been a year of revelations. I’ve discovered in myself that I can run far and long, reaching milestones that I could never have...

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/immunotherapy/checkpoint-inhibitors Faced with long-term illness, one learns to...

It’s really interesting to read in my blog post from August 9th 2020 celebrating my ‘all-clear’ where I write: “The chances of staying in...

I think it’s fair to say that I’ve lived my life these past 18 months on the basis that however bad my cancer and treatment had been,...

Not all surprises on your birthday turn out to be nice, and last year’s confirmation of having Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) on February...