Walking through fire

A walk Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who sponsored my five mile walk for Pancreatic Cancer UK!  I set myself what I thought was a reasonable fundraising target of £250 - but then you guys got involved. Once the total had shot through £250 and was heading upwards fast, I reset my target to £2000. By the time I did the walk, it was more than £3000 and at the time of writing stands at over £3600. As I've said several time, I am just overwhelmed by everyone's generosity. If by any remote chance you haven't sponsored me yet and would like to, you can still do so up to 16 August. Here's the link to my fundraising page: https://www.thebigstepforward.org.uk/fundraisers/marymilne I'm beginning to wonder about the title of my recent blog So you do fundraising then? No... Perhaps a career in fundraising beckons after all. The walk itself was fun, stretching but not overwhelming. My older son came along, plus the dog of course, and we left at 8.30am so we could ...

I’m writing this sitting in the car in the hospital car park. I’m due my next CT scan today to check the progress of my little friends in my pancreas and liver. My scan was due at 9am but due to a stupid brain freeze on my part I ate some breakfast at 7.30am before re-reading the appointment letter and realising I’d been told not to eat anything for four hours prior to the scan. So now I need to wait… I'm k icking myself, I think this is the fourth CT scan I’ve had in the last year, I really should have remembered. But still it gives me a chance to write a quick blog… The last couple of months have been a lot of fun. I’ve met more friends, drunk more coffee, visited more restaurants, worked more hours, gone for more walks and arranged more holidays… Mostly I’ve felt well. Paracetamol four times a day seems to keep on top of the pain and the pancreatic enzyme supplements I’ve been taking are obviously doing their job because the challenge has been to lose a bit of weight rather than...