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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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‘One Thousand and One Nights’ is a classic Middle Eastern literary work of short stories and poems supposedly narrated by a young wife Scheherazade to misogynist king Shahriar who, upon discovering the infidelity of his first wife, had her executed…
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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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It is almost a year since I was diagnosed with liver cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma, to give it its proper medical name). After an operation to remove the tumour, and with it about 66% of my liver, my family and I were…
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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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