Chris Luck's Blog

Aftermath

Chris Luck — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:33:20 +0000

Well, I’ve gone through the whole gamut of feelings over the last twenty four hours or so, running from depression and despair to anger and frustration.

But anger is the most predominant feeling. I blasted off an email to the hospital yesterday and have asked for a private clinical meeting with the consultant next week – [...]

Clinical meeting

Chris Luck — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:28:44 +0000

Shit! Shit! Shit!

Not good. It really doesn’t help when you have to wait over one and a half hours past your appointment time to hear bad news!

We saw the registrar rather than the consultant and it was not a good meeting. Regarding the CT scan, it is pretty clear that although the lymph’s have reduced [...]

I am an Actor

Chris Luck — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:58:01 +0000

I am an actor without a script, Stumbling on a dark and empty stage, Strewn with dismal scenery and crumbling props, I mouth my incoherent lines and filthy asides, Into the vast and endless silence, That, like a deep and bottomless well, Swallows my words and empty thoughts, And sucks my soul dry into desiccated bones. The audience sits deaf, dumb and mute, As [...]

Birthday

Chris Luck — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:36:19 +0000

Yesterday was my birthday and I’m sorry to say that I have reached the age of 54. It is amazing how time creeps up on you. It is difficult to imagine that I am over half a century old. Friends and family put on a super birthday party yesterday and it was great to see [...]

Dad

Chris Luck — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:20:32 +0000

Some days I wish you would come back, And we could sit and have a chat, And then we’d say the things unsaid, When you left and we were bereft.

Those things we never seemed to find the time, To say though they were on our mind, Those things I never said to you, The things I somehow hoped you knew.

I’d pay [...]

Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Chris Luck — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:10:03 +0000

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men One man dies every hour in the UK

March is Prostate Cancer awareness month. Marks and Spencer’s are supporting Prostate Cancer awareness month by running ‘Pants-A-Lot’ campaigns. They are donating 10% from the sale of an Autograph range of men’s underwear for the first two weeks of March [...]

Dynamite

Chris Luck — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:08:09 +0000

Yet another story from the Daily Mail about a cure for prostate cancer (article here) – this time ‘dynamite’.

It turns out that the clinical trial was actually with skin patches seeped in nitroglycerine rather than sticks of dynamite (where would you put them!) as suggested by the accompanying picture of a bundle of dynamite. The [...]

Snorkelling off Dahab beach

Chris Luck — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:18:35 +0000

The sun sends patterns of shifting light, To dance on the undulating sea floor, Like carefree children out at play, That skip and hop upon the sand, And in the deeper water there, Shafts of light, oblique and sharp, Stab down to penetrate the clear blue water, While fishes, in gaudy garish costumes, Carelessly swim alone, or swirl together, In kaleidoscopic displays of liquid motion, Whilst drifting [...]

Not a good day!

Chris Luck — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:48:52 +0000

Woke up today with severe back ache. Got up to go to work but had to phone in sick. Went back to bed and slept until 9:45! I seem to be very, very tired of late. I can’t help thinking that this may be due to anxiety about my forthcoming clinical meeting next week. I [...]

Does sugar feed prostate cancer?

Chris Luck — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:42:25 +0000

Came across a really interesting video from the “Ask Dr. Myers” prostate cancer website. There has long been myths about the link between sugar and cancer, but Dr. Myers puts these to bed quite convincingly:

So it seems that it’s Mars bars all round!