Starting at Half-way...

I guess there is never really a "Half-way" point unless the time definition is such that a half-way point is pretty much a given: half-way through a two week vacation, half-way through a 3 hour exam, half-way through a long flight, to name a few...

I am half-way through a six week round of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to hopefully kick the ass of the second grade B cervical tumour that decided to crash into my life half-way through my Summer 2014.  Impact was heart-shatteringly painful, scary, confusing and oh, how do you put it into words?

What? What? I hear you say...! What the hell happened to the first half? And why didn't we know about it? Well, some of you do and some of you don't and this is why:

1) Bad news is usually given to family first, poor them, followed by my friends who live here and share my everyday life (poor them, ha!)

2) I have been wanting to write about this for a while as some of my run with cancer so far has been hilarious, some tragic, some unexpected but these are MY stories and I don't want to upset people who are sailing on rougher seas than I. So, I have to think before I erm, speak?

3) Many of you will know that I have been a pain in the neck about getting checked-up. My poor girlfriends have been pestered, bothered, tutted at and pointed fingered at and in some cases dragged to the gyno kicking and screaming! Yet, lo, the irony... the one who gets checked (moi) slips through the net. This can happen.

I will talk more about the "before, the how and the when" later on, but back to the "half-way"...

How I feel? Physically? My body is going into yo-yo, things are happening that I didn't think would be possible...it's amazing and terrifying all at the same time. Mentally? Well, we are still half-way folks. I will get round to all the mental stuff later on too. So please, think of this as an introduction for now because I have got a great deal to write, a long way to go and stories to tell...like how the title of this blog came about for instance, which is an uncanny tale of naughty doctors and a tricky moment in an MRI machine...

Till then, I am half-way, I am OK and thanks for reading.