Nathaniel Dye

No blogs recently as I’ve been in hospital for emergency bowel surgery. In until c.late next week. Message for details if intending to visit.…
Today’s blogpost/diary entry/journal/whinge is brought to you by intense waves of abdominal pain.  Yes I’m ok - it’s probably due to bowel fluctuations caused by a combination of chemo and the primary…
It’s a slight exaggeration to say that I’ve done absolutely nothing over the past few days, but it’s not far off. A combination of fluctuating fatigue and reluctance to expose myself to cold weather …
I can’t claim to have mastered much in my relatively short life.  But I am very good at suffering.  I don’t remember of course, but at 28 weeks gestation, it’s safe to say I was born in pain.  It’s li…
I’m not sure if the spoon analogy is used enough to require explanation or not but I know all about it now - thanks to a few spoonfuls of experiential reality. Apparently it was first used by someone …
Yesterday was a good day…I think…I’m not really sure what one is any more as it’s been a while since I’ve had one.  It started with a bit of exhaustion - the kind where I opted to blend my p…
Yesterday, I made it outside for the first time in five days.  The occasion for this tentative reintegration into society: a work meeting. I’ll predict some responses:‘Why?’You didn’t nee…
Sunday was just like any old Sunday.  Well - not like the good old ones of a year or three ago - I didn’t run 50k before breakfast - in fact, for the foreseeable future, it’s safe to assume the zero p…
Well, as Day 2 of cycle 2 draws to a close, it seems like things are  (at least initially) less debilitating than the last.  The tingles are either coming down or I’m better at managing them.  Sicknes…
Today was utterly absurd and I still haven’t gotten my head around it. It started innocuously enough with meeting my friend Jude, who had travelled all the way from Canterbury on a ridiculously ear…