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On Tuesday 28 August 2018, the gates of hell were opened and I was thrown in. I ran from one end of hell to the other, and there on the outside were my immediate family and close friends, urging me to keep going and rejoin them, taking almost 40 days to make this ghastly crossing. Thus began my fight with “Cholangiocarcinoma”, an aggressive liver cancer.
Over the coming days, I will post various blogs on how this fight has been going and maybe tell you who comes out a winner.
Five years ago, to the day, I woke up early to undergo a major operation at the American Medical Center in Nicosia, Cyprus. As well as my wife Claire, my eldest daughter Leila, and my brother Samir, I was surrounded…
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Exactly four years ago on 31 August 2018, I was wheeled to the medical operating theatre at the American Hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus. It was a Friday and, based on the best medical advice available, the decision to go ahead…
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At around 7:00 pm on 1st July last year, Claire drove me to John Radcliff Hospital in Oxford with high fever and acute pain in my lower back and legs. As she drove, with mounting concern by both of us,…
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I am writing and sharing with you this very last blog on “Fighting Cancer”. The reasons for my decision to close the blog are: Firstly, this fight may go on for weeks, months, years even, where the pace and progress can…
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This blog is partly to dispel a myth that has developed over the last four months and partly to recognise and give credit to an army of people who played parts in helping get through the first two battles with…
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On Thursday 11 October, when we were unexpectedly told that as a result of the CT scan and other tests, I needed to be re-admitted to hospital. That afternoon, the Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Patatas inserted needles through the right side…
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It is stating the obvious to say that cancer blights our lives in so many different ways, types and parts of our bodies. Each and every cancer fighter has her/ his own human story to tell. The fight with cancer does…
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Apology: In the last blog I promised to write about the nature of the fight with cancer. It is still work in progress hence, the Pain & Gain substitute. There is no avoiding the subject of pain when talking about…
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Okay, maybe I am overselling this blog by calling statistics ‘interesting’. Most people get bored just by hearing the word ‘statistics’, but, I am going to try to change your mind about this topic by avoiding medically serious statistics. Through…
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WARNING: As in my previous blog, I occasionally use explicit language which you may find offensive. My intention is to make my point without sugar-coating my experience of being treated for cancer. So, how did this loss of dignity manifest…
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