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18/06/2024

It’s Round 63… and yes for those playing at home in my pre-holiday excitement I forgot to post about Round 62. My bad.

And not a lot has changed between sessions except to say that I TURNED 40! Eek.

I celebrated overseas on a dream US trip that took me to Alaska, Seattle, Vegas for a night with , Phoenix for a night with , Anaheim for two days at and then back to Hawaii to turn 40!

It was a weird - but really really happy - feeling to be celebrating as I think back to my cancer diagnosis 3.5 years ago and thinking I wouldn’t even make 37.

As I reflected on the day, celebrating 40 made the cake taste even sweeter if I’m honest.

Anyhow today’s chemo was uneventful except for my lovely nurses who surprised me with a delicious dessert plate to mark turning the big 40!

29/04/2024

Just me and my bag hanging (literally) out for Round 61 of chemo… which for once was pretty uneventful. Yay. So I spent my time relaxing as best as I could and thinking about my week ahead.

Nothing else to say here really, besides .

What are you up to this week?

15/04/2024

I always like to mark the milestones even though another medical procedure seems like a weird thing to celebrate.

Round 60 is here. And it seems only natural to once again have cake to drown my sorrows. With an average of $2685 spent per round not including other costs that means I’m up to about the $161,000 mark in IV and medication expenses alone. F**k. Better eat cake.

Today was a s**t show from the get go. Blood clots inside my test tubes (from medical human error) meant my results were coming back truly whacky (and almost deadly) which in turn delayed treatment until they realised. Time for more cake.

When I was finally given the all clear to proceed, treatment was relatively painless. …but maybe that was because I was blissed out on sugar high from eating half a Biscoff cake. Who can say.

It’s insane to be sitting here at Round 60 when I was told three years ago I had maybe 12 months left.

Now the really important question remains… what cake flavour should I get for round 70?

26/03/2024

Please Port 4 be the lucky one. When I was first sold on the idea of a port for chemo delivery I was into it. Reducing the amount of cannulars required sounded like a dream. Three failed ports and six procedures later I’m now sitting in recovery (again) and hoping that this one will last more than a few months.

25/03/2024

Chemo 59! There’s nothing much more to add than this. It’s a little tough getting back into the swing of it after a fortnight off from treatment - but we soldier on!

27/02/2024

There was a little less screaming than last nights Taylor Swift concert and a little more tears, but I’m glad I was Fearless and didn’t have Bad Blood… test results, ok I’m not gonna do that.

Unlike last night, I took my mum to today’s gig. Thankful for the support but really wish she stopped singing Karma in the hospital ward.

Results were stable and treatment was relatively uneventful unlike my adventures losing my wallet in a crowd of 84,000 people. Good times.

05/02/2024

The results are in and fortunately the cancer is stable still, which is good. The bad is, the constant back pain I’ve been having which I assumed to be cancer related, is spinal damage/stiffness which may or may not be a side effect of my treatment. Who knew? So it’s good to breathe a sigh of relief on the cancer side but now I’ve gotta look after my back. It never ends really. Happy for positive news though.

29/01/2024

Round 55 and the heat and humidity in Sydney make me feel like I’m on double fire! 🔥🔥

For those of you playing at home, the port saga continues with confirmation my newly installed port is “definitely not in an ideal” location - aka doctor bulls**t for we fu**ed up when we installed it and didn’t do our due diligence to check it could be used in its full capacity before closing you up.

So I’ll consult my oncologist in the coming weeks and work out what to do next, but I fear yet ANOTHER port surgery is in my future. 😩

The upside is I have a new bag for chemo and it’s bound to get a few looks in the oncology ward 👀 But, those who know me well know that I am surviving this journey through a heavy dose of black humour - and it’s getting me through. So I’ll continue to survive… out of spite 😂

21/01/2024

Today marks 3 years since I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Bowel Cancer. It’s a wild and weird feeling.

I’m writing this from Hong Kong where I am for a week for my best friend’s 40th. When I was diagnosed I didn’t even know if I would make it to the end of the year let alone be standing here in 2024.

A friend from this community was talking the other day about the idea of our diagnosis and all the trauma that is attached with it. Oh there’s so much trauma.

We discussed the idea of what feels like “borrowed time” - when you live past your initial diagnosis.

I clearly remember my oncologist scrawling 12-24 months on my first paperwork. In fairness he was filling in a form for my employer not just trying to make me feel bad, but that doesn’t mean it still didn’t hit hard.

My brain took a screenshot that day and those numbers just randomly appear now and then to remind me that like everyone, we have an expiry date, it’s just mine could change at any time.

But in saying that, I know that it’s just a number and really fate will be the one that decides how accurate it actually is.

I’m living in “bonus time” right now - today marks one year past my initial “deadline”. A kind of fcked up way to think about it but it’s the only way I can process it in my head. And for that I’m grateful. To be given more time to do things, see things and of course eat things.

03/01/2024

First day of treatment for 2024! I tried to put my thumb up but was quickly reminded that I had a cannula in place 😂

19/12/2023

Gotta put a smile on your dial for the last chemo round for 2023. Round 53. All I want for Christmas is no joint pain, no chemo rash, an all-expenses paid trip to Italy and no side effects.

15/07/2022

Round 20. Back on my bulls**t. After a few weeks break it’s time to be back in the chair getting juiced up once again. Am I happy to be back? Yes and No. Yes because I’m happy to be back on a treatment that is helping me suppress the nasties. No, because it’s a return to a life with limitations. But we continue on. 👊🏼

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