Category Archives: work

shadow

12 Sunday Apr 2009

Posted by in blogging, change, computers, internet, media, twitter, websites, work

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Yeah I know, but . . .

This really isn’t as reckless and frivolous as it may first appear. At least let me explain before you decide. Yesterday I had to take my Sexy Beast to computer hospital because of the fracture problem I told you about earlier. At the time I wondered how the hell I would manage without a computer at home for the month or so that SB would be gone, especially as Nog’s laptop had died awhile back. On the way home that day I stopped by the computer section of the store and saw this very basic Toshiba on special offer, and after that I went home and did some research…

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just knew I was gonna love this place…

06 Monday Apr 2009

Posted by in cancer, chemo, food & drink, friends, neighbours, restaurants, sevilla, work

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When Susan took me out for lunch on Friday (the day after going back on chemo) we tried this recently opened pizzeria called L’Oca Giuliva, right across the street from my house. And I knew straight away that this was going to become the new takeaway pizza joint for casa az. Not that I actually order many takeaway pizzas – in fact, hardly any at all – but they are curiously very good “chemo comfort food”. Especially when, like yesterday evening, I’d just woken up from a four hour nap, was feeling peckish, but was still way too groggy to even make toast…

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prognosis & treatment (4)

24 Tuesday Mar 2009

Posted by in cancer, friends, health & happiness, home, hospitals, sevilla, spain, work

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creation-michelangeloHave decided to get creative about this …

Had the latest PET scan last Thursday, after having been “rescued” by my new oncologist a few days earlier. She was the first person since all this started last May to point out that CEA marker tests were totally useless in my case (they always ended up “normal” even when I  actually had tumours) and also suggested that CT scans were probably not going to be that helpful either. Hence the latest PET scan. And well, it wasn’t very good news …

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pardon my absence

10 Tuesday Mar 2009

Posted by in blogging, friends, health & happiness, hope, life stuff, work

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For those of you who may have noticed…

I haven’t been around the ol’ blogosphere much of late, though I have actually been spending even more time than usual in front of the computer.  When I have had some time to do a little blog reading (usually in bed on the iPhone with Azar on my head) I mostly catch up without leaving comments. Which I know is really bad of me because I know how much I love getting comments, and that you gotta give in order to receive, and all that jazz. But it’ll probably be like this for the next couple of weeks anyhow, while I desperately try to get work and other stuff sorted out.

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