Lab Rat in......Life

So first I'll start by thanking everyone for all the kind messages and gifts/cards, I've been truly touched by the response to my last blog, and once again I apologise that I haven't responded to everyone, but please know I appreciate all your kind words. Many people have been asking how I'm doing now and how I'm responding to the chemotherapy. Hopefully this post can answer some of your questions. So the type of chemotherapy I'm having is called FEC-T, the fist few cycles are the FEC ( f luorouracil , e pirubicin ,  c yclophosphamide ) part. I know many people find the name FEC very funny, and for me it definitely brings back memories of watching Father Ted and of my wonderful Irish nana insisting that 'feck' is not a swear word. I have to say that when I thought about writing this blog at the end of my first cycle I fully expected to be contradicting nana and saying that FEC was most definitely an expletive, but honestly at the moment I can't ...

Okay, so I've debated with myself a lot about starting this blog. Part of me feels like its a good way for me to process everything that's going on at the moment, and to let people know some details so that I'm not asked the same questions over and over again. Another part of me feels it's a little bit self indulgent and that now is not really the time to share such personal things. I guess if you're reading this then the first part won through. I started writing a blog back in 2013, when I moved to Tanzania, for the sole reason of keeping people updated with stories and pictures, but found that the blog became a bit of a therapeutic tool for me more than anything else. Since leaving Tanzania I haven't continued with blogging, I didn't even really finish that one properly. In the year and a half since I returned I have struggled a little bit to adjust back to life in the UK, I've spent the time as a bit of a nomad working as a locum and moving around v...