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Biker, mountaineering wannabe and weekday architect turned design manager

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Too busy living quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Too busy living

The last week, if I am honest has been the hardest yet on this journey and for the first time I feel I can’t see a straightforward direction. I’m not sure there even is one. But really hope there i…

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Pain is my nemesis quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Pain is my nemesis

We had bitten the bullet and driven down to Dorset for a long overdue catch up with family. It’s a three hundred mile drive so we we were a bit nervous making the journey but we got there in one pi…

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Finding (or rather losing) equilibrium quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Finding (or rather losing) equilibrium

It is sixty days since my last admission to the ward. Not a bad innings but over the past week I’d been feeling increasingly poorly and this led to some pretty debilitating nausea and sickness. Add…

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The art of polypharmacy quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

The art of polypharmacy

Over the last few days I’ve learnt the hard way about the importance of a concept called polypharmacy. This is a relatively new one on me but is the science of treating one set of side effects with…

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The Greatest Escape quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

The Greatest Escape

I long to stand upon my rock and gaze far out to sea, to daydream of the future and feel once more – me. Since this experience started one of the biggest challenges for me has been attempting…

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Small wins quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Small wins

Just a brief update. After the recent dizzy spells I was in for an MRI to check my head and brain. I was really nervous about it so it was great news to hear today that it was ‘unremarkable’. (I al…

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Trying to find safe ground quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Trying to find safe ground

As time marches by and I get deeper into this new treatment I am trying to understand the rhythm that comes with it. This might not make sense, but different side effects come and go during the two…

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Is the roller-coaster slowing down? quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Is the roller-coaster slowing down?

We did it. Cycle four (my first on Encorafenib) completed without a trip to the ward or any infections. A small victory but a significant one. It signals for me a turning point and a little tractio…

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Floating on air quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Floating on air

Yesterday I got a hit of the most potent drug. It wasn’t morphine and it wasn’t Dex, it was a heady mix of adrenaline and hope. I was lucky enough to be able to buy an e-bike not long ago. When I b…

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I can live wiv mouf ulthers if I get to bike again quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

I can live wiv mouf ulthers if I get to bike again

Yesterday we packed up Christmas, its been a quiet couple of weeks but we felt it was time to look forward to 2023 – and we needed the space! I’m now eight days into the new treatment and I h…

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Level 4 – Time for power ups quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Level 4 – Time for power ups

I hope that you had a Christmas to remember. I was so, so lucky that I was able to make it home and it really put me on a footing to tackle the next level of this arcade challenge which started thi…

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The magic of Christ(ie)mas quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

The magic of Christ(ie)mas

It is Christmas Eve, a day some thought was beyond me (thankfully how wrong they were) and I am ecstatic to be back at home, in front of the virtual fire drinking a virtual G&T (0% but surprisi…

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Groundhog Day quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Groundhog Day

Chumbawumba (yes that nineties scruff pack) had a lyric in their one memorable hit. ‘I get knocked down, but I get up again, you are never gonna keep me down’. This week has been another week of kn…

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Fight fire with fire quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Fight fire with fire

The Sea Monster might have grown armour – so now we need to bring in the super Pac-Men. Hopefully these guys are the ninja warriors of chemo, I’m told they know their stuff so we are back in …

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Level Three Battle Boss quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Level Three Battle Boss

Yesterday was cycle three and I was glad to get to the start line. Unfortunately sleep escapes me so I’m writing this bright and early. The Christie team were ace as always and I had a good couple …

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Times like these quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Times like these

Way back in September (in another lifetime) we were so lucky to get tickets to the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert at Wembley. Taylor was the drummer in one of my all time favourite bands, the Foo F…

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Changes quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

Changes

Ozzy Osborne (always a secret hero) sings a song that talks about ‘going through changes’. It is for me one of his best tracks and in that simple refrain sums up what is happening day by day right …

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I’m floating in space quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

I’m floating in space

I feel at the moment that time has started to take on a strange rhythm whilst I’m stuck in my space station outpost. Day by day the morning is gone in a flash, the afternoons crawl and morph into s…

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The exotic diagnosis machines quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

The exotic diagnosis machines

I’ve been on a bit of a whistle stop tour of healthcare’s finest machinery in the last few weeks. As a bit of a distraction I’ve scribbled an idiots guide to the ‘tools of the trade’ so far. I’m su…

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More curve balls than the World Cup quarrymanblog.wordpress.com/…

More curve balls than the World Cup

This experience is hardening my outer shell in more ways than I thought it could. Aside from the physical impact on hands and feet (sandpaper never felt so soft) there is the inevitable toughening …

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