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Trekathon | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. September 22, 2014. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Charity. Middot; Leave a comment. Again, long time no post! After much dithering about this year’s charity event we have decided to do the London Trekathon. So far we have reached 80% of our fundraining goal for Brainstrust, here is our JustGiving page. In case you would like to support us! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Two years | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. April 29, 2014. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Death. Middot; 1 Comment. Like last year I have mixed feelings about the ‘anniversary’. On one hand, I’m very glad that after all he’s been through, B is ‘healthy’ and his tumour is inactive. On the other hand, I can’t help but remember the words of The German, who predicted that the cancer would return in around 3 years. How did two years go by so fast? B turns 41 in a few days time so it’s de...
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Survival | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. April 30, 2014. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Charity. Middot; 7 Comments. Every now and then a seemingly positive story about cancer survival rates hits the press. Yesterday I awoke to a notification on my iPhone about this story. Which, you might think, would put a spring in my step (although I was still lying in bed at the time). Ah yes, there it is:. The improvements in early detection and treatment for some cancers is fantastic. It is d...
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. January 18, 2016. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Seizure. Middot; 3 Comments. B experienced something weird whilst sitting at his desk one day last week – the right side of his face became numb, and then the same thing happened to his right thumb and right hand. He was reading the Guardian website at the time and became unable to use his mouse, so was forced to […]. January 18, 2016. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Optimism. Middot; Leave a comment.
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I wish… | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. February 25, 2014. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Health. Middot; 2 Comments. The organisation Pancreatic Cancer Action. Recenty came under fire. For a series of advertisements in which sufferers express a desire to have another, less lethal, type of cancer instead. Some journalists have said that the charity should realise that the disease is not a competition. Pancreatic cancer and brain cancer are still essentially a death sentence. Brain ...
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Jill | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. September 1, 2016. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Christmas. Middot; 1 Comment. Things have been burbling along since all the drama in June. B self-injected an anticoagulant daily for a month or so but now he’s just on warfarin to keep his blood at the right consistency for artery healing. He’s still having regular blood tests to monitor it. A CT scan will happen in a few […]. June 15, 2016. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Hospital. June 8, 2016.
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Give it up | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. April 24, 2014. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Charity. Middot; 2 Comments. Or crawling under live wires through mud. Long distance walking, however, with its slow grinding down of body, mind and spirit, is a-ok. Why aren’t there more cerebral charity events? A chess challenge, scrabble marathon or ‘Read the entire works of Dickens in a month’? Now that would be gruelling. I’d like to see the hardasses at Tough Mudder tackle Great Expec...Some pe...
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Cancer lit | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. December 31, 2013. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Food. Middot; 2 Comments. In yesterday’s wrap-up of 2013 I failed to highlight a literary genre that I have recently discovered cancer lit. This comes either in the form of non-fiction (research, supposition and cold hard facts) or biography (big on tragedy, low on swashbuckling romance). None of the covers feature Fabio as a neuro-oncology consultant. Not one. By Frank Vertosick Jr. This book won...
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Medical | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. Tumour: Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma (Grade 3). Symptoms: Tonic-clonic seizure on 29/4/2012, headaches. Surgery: Image-guided awake craniotomy, achieving macroscopic removal (90% ) on 19/5/2012. Treatment: 6 weeks combined radiotherapy/chemotherapy from 16/7/2012. 6 cycles chemotherapy from 3/10/2012. Medication: Keppra (anti-seizure) – 2000mg/day. April 2013: Residual tumour inactive but unchanged by chemotherapy. Next scan: June 2016. Addres...
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The white stuff | Boyfriend with a brain tumour
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Boyfriend with a brain tumour. A man, a woman and a neoplasm. January 14, 2014. Middot; by Jill. Middot; in Food. Middot; 2 Comments. We’ve all seen food fads come and go. I’ll happily shun a demonised food group, with vigour. Low-fat foods – booo. High-fat foods – booo. Carbs – hissssss. Only to embrace them again when the fad is over. I’ve also been known to adopt a fashionable diet plan. Eat for my blood type? Sure, why not. Eat for my body type? Make mine a mesomorph. Eat like a caveman? When I stopp...
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