Six Words

Six words you don't want to hear:

Donald Trump is the new President
The UK has voted for Brexit
The lump was a malignant melanoma

It's funny how sometimes you know things. When you've lived in your skin for 39 years, you know. Even when two consultants say "I think this is unlikely to be cancer". At the time that made me wonder if I was going crazy. I knew I wasn't and I knew a hard subcutaneous lump at the site of my original tumour could very definitely be a recurrence. But when two specialists tell you it's unlikely, you do doubt yourself.

That was just over a month ago and a lot has happened since then. When I have the energy and the time, I will log it all into some type of catalogue of errors. Or comedy of errors, if it all gets fixed and I get through it okay. Right now, I'm not laughing. Right now, I'm sitting in a hospital waiting room with a leg that has cancer in it.

I'll try to keep this lighthearted but you'll probably find the following entries are written in a bit of a different tone to those of five years ago. I'm older, wiser and less patient.

To be continued...