Blog Post Number: 4 Days Since Diagnosis: 129 Purpose: general update, narrative, I rose this morning from a heavy and heady slumber to find myself housed in a peculiar and oddly unrecognised room. Peculiar in that it was unfamiliar to me, not that the content of the room was anyway strange, quirky, or unexpected. Most certainly, however, it was clear I was not in the room to which I regularly retire. Though confused as the Fog of Morpheus drained from my body and awareness became more aligned to my usual window to the world around a me, I came to realise where I had found myself upon the cusp of this morning's dawn. My fast would once more be broken amongst other patient patrons of Redcliffe General Hospital. Wait, that sounds quite dramatic and rather as if I caught unawares amongst the effects of an opoid that had been placed discretely within my meals, then taken against my knowledge, wit, or desire. This was of course not the case. I was merely so effected by the d...
Blog Post Number: 3 Days Since Diagnosis: 100 Purpose:excitement, disappointment, narrative, I first started working on this post on Thursday. And it was quite a happy thing. But then some things happened that completely threw my mood. Screwed it up in a ball of tissue paper and threw it straight in to waste paper basket. Because I'm still not sure how I feel about things yet and not too sure how to move them into a consistent narrative, I'm breaking this into 4 sections Blog Post Number: 3.1 (The Excitement) Days Since Diagnosis: 98 Purpose: Excitement My second to last visit to hospital was an eleven day affair, filled with tests, scans, xrays, an endoscopy, nearly colonoscopies, and a flexible sigmoidoscopy. If you don't know what a flexible sigmoidoscopy is, please don't feel any need to look up, it is a terribly indelicate thing, and the less we discuss it the better. It was also a trip that triggered the monotony of hospital food, and brought...