Still here

I promised to occasionally update the blog just to let folks who read it later know that I am still around, I used to hate those blogs that just stopped when I was doing my research.  Oddly I was back at the Western General Cancer Centre today as Lee's Uncle is not very well and is in there for some treatment to help him be more comfortable.  This followed on from a chat on Friday with my friend Howard who is working his way through the early stages of a journey with a brain tumour, but in fine form and wondering if his chemo will slow him down on a 28mile run this weekend !

So all is well with us, it is 10 years since my cancer diagnosis on the 20th of Feb 2006 and then we had a dance with Hodgkins until Aug 7th 2007 when I got the all clear that stuck, the one in Oct 2006 turned out to be a false dawn.

I am in good shape physically, I do moderate amount of running with regular half marathons and have stopped drinking, so feel better than in the past, and much better than in the middle of chemo.  The girls have all grown up Poppy in New York for the year as part of her Glasgow based law degree and Holly driving around in the last year of school with an offer to uni under her belt so getting more independent by the day.  Lee has picked up an MBA from the Queen and is very happy with her work, even joining me in thinking about giving up full time work in a few years time.

My current project is to build an overland adventure camper based on a land rover platform and head off traveling and travel writing around the world, the company will be called Celtic Rover and I hope to start a blog and website about the travels in the next weeks.

I wish any of you who read this as a part of researching the path through your own situation all the strength and humour you will need to deal with your own journey, keep it in the day and be kind to yourself and the people around you.

Gerry