I am very sad to report that my friend Michael passed away in late February this year, our heart felt condolences go out to Jean, Michael's wife and Louise his daughter from both Wendy and I.
I have previously blogged about my friend Michael who was undergoing the same lung operation as me at the Spire hospital in Leicester. Michael was the first bowel cancer patient that I had met to actually speak to and discuss things with, since my diagnosis.
Michael and I met in the HDU (High Dependency Unit) of the Leicester Spire hospital . When I say met, we were both in a lot of pain and recovering from our lung surgery and both of us had tubes and all sorts of paraphernalia attached to our bodies, but Michael managed to chat and make me laugh.
On being discharged, we kept in contact via telephone and I met Michael and Jean again during a consultants follow up visit at the Spire, it was great to see Michael and Jean again.
Michael was such an inspiration to me, and had a terrific sense of humour, he kept my spirits up even when in pain in the HDU and feeling that I had been run over by a bus!!
In order to write this blog today I wanted to know how many times I had mentioned Michael within its content the following blog posts tell the story but blog 110 sums it up.
Blog 17
http://livingwithbowelcancer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/blog-17-friday-22nd-july-2011.html
Blog 22
http://livingwithbowelcancer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/blog-22-tuesday-9th-august-2011.html
Blog 27
http://livingwithbowelcancer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/blog-27-friday-27th-august-2011.html
Blog 85
http://livingwithbowelcancer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/blog-85-monday-30-january-2012.html
Blog 100
http://livingwithbowelcancer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/blog-100-monday-26th-march-2012.html
Blog 110
http://livingwithbowelcancer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/blog-110-tuesday-15th-may-2012.html
Blog 111
http://livingwithbowelcancer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/blog-111-wednesday-30th-may2012.html
Michael also via this blog commented on blog 18 post I had written
Michael wrote ...............Good to speak to you today John, hope all went well with your visit to the hospital this afternoon. I shall be back at the Spires for more torture tomorrow!!! Will speak to you soon.
Michael. (September 5, 2011 at 7:02 pm)
I feel the above shows how much of an inspiration you were to me Michael on my journey thank you so much
John Naisbit
