Following the news of being three years clear of cancer, the medical surveillance regime of scans, blood tests and colonoscopy has all but disappeared. I no longer get appointments after appointments dropping on the door mat or thankfully having the agonising wait for results. I'm no longer visiting the various health professionals that I have come to know so well......... Its all a bit surreal really, If it wasn't for the scars evident all over my back and torso, its like that was a different person a different life.
I feel now, as if I've entered a new faze, that I'm starting a new chapter. I am extremely thankful, for the obvious extension to my life as a result of the medically hectic previous five years. I am now aiming for the next hurdle of being five years clear of cancer. I will still be below the age of participation in the UK government cancer tests screening that my previous blog post informed about, but by then if nothing has happened to me I probably won't give cancer a second thought. (He says bravely now).
Since being given the all clear in September this year I have come out of retirement and returned to work. It didn't take long, a few applications, a couple of interviews and I'm back full time in facilities management as a site manager in Peterborough.
This will probably be my last post for 2014. I'm really looking forward to 2015 and would like to wish all my followers and friends a fantastic but relaxing Christmas and a very healthy and prosperous New Year.
I feel now, as if I've entered a new faze, that I'm starting a new chapter. I am extremely thankful, for the obvious extension to my life as a result of the medically hectic previous five years. I am now aiming for the next hurdle of being five years clear of cancer. I will still be below the age of participation in the UK government cancer tests screening that my previous blog post informed about, but by then if nothing has happened to me I probably won't give cancer a second thought. (He says bravely now).
Since being given the all clear in September this year I have come out of retirement and returned to work. It didn't take long, a few applications, a couple of interviews and I'm back full time in facilities management as a site manager in Peterborough.
This will probably be my last post for 2014. I'm really looking forward to 2015 and would like to wish all my followers and friends a fantastic but relaxing Christmas and a very healthy and prosperous New Year.
