chemotherapy – Alice… what's the matter?

Come on, Eileen

These people ’round here With their beat down eyes sunk in smoke dried faces They’re resigned to what their fate is But not us, (no never) no not us (no never) We are far to young and clever (Remember) Toora loora toora loo rye aye Eileen, I’ll hum this tune forever Today was both weirder,…More

Ring the bells

Ring the bells, wake the town, Everyone is sleeping. Shout at the crowd, wake them up This anger’s deeper than sleep. Got to keep awake to what is happening. I can’t see a thing through my ambitions, I no longer feel like God is watching over me Got to tell the world we’ve all been dreaming This is not the…More

Forget what we’re told

Today was the day I had the news about me that I neither wanted nor was really expecting. After all, most of the conversations up until that point had been about a surprise that my tumour was anything but benign in the first place, and certainly the node biopsies had been negative. But no. I…More