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Terminal Mobbles
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40 | Leo is wonderful | Radiotherapy pup | Needs snuggles and licks and pokes | 18+ (Adult Content) | Rollercoasters are pawsome
You have a rather nice face :-)
January 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I feel that the 16GB/1TB and 32GB/1TB option should be for both SteamOS and Windows. This makes the cost of a Windows license transparent to the user who, IMO would be more likely to buy the SteamOS version. Instead, to a layperson, the SteamOS version looks like the cheap alternative
January 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I couldn’t do this also without Richard and Janet, Ezra, my parents, Michael and many who wished me well. You all mean a huge amount to me and I look forward to 2025, whatever that may entail
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I do wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that I’ll be more online from the new year and be out more often
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
This Christmas could easily be my last but just as easily I have many more years ahead. It’s a strange feeling but I remain optimistic. One’s ability to remain positive plays a huge role in how we challenge things like cancer, kidney failure and transplant surgery
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I still have a terminal diagnosis and will learn the whereabouts of any cancer that remains or spreads. I don’t think it’s spread but I also don’t know
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
We remain very close, in love but not in a romantic way for now. Maybe the romance won’t come back, and to a large extent that’s ok. What matters now is my continued recovery and Leo succeeding and learning about himself
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
My speech is still affected noticeably by this but that too is gradually improving. Leo, who I’m incredibly proud of found a graduate position and I’ll miss him hugely but it’s time for him to move onto a path that will kickstart what I am certain to be a very fruitful career
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
It’s been about a month and ten days since radiotherapy finished and thankfully I can taste a limited range of flavours. My tongue and gums remain painful and tender but are generally improving. I still have some thick mucous caused by a lack of saliva but that too is far better
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The person I helped with his depression, who I helped I helped to instil belief in themselves and their own abilities stayed by my side throughout and without him I probably wouldn’t have made it
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The pain got worse after every session and for a week or so after I completed the therapy. Ensure ensured I could keep going and water was all I could drink. Everything else felt like an acid or alkaline burn

Radiotherapy was a thoroughly miserable time
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I also maintained the ability to swallow. Radiation pointed at the lower part of my, generally around my pharynx and lower to my neck caused a huge burn both internally and externally. Swallowing anything was like swallowing shards of glass.

Stupidly painful
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I did however hop onto a bus followed by a Piccadilly line train and a short walk to and from the hospital throughout treatment. I don’t know how but I have always been a person who will do the maximum possible despite circumstances. This is also sometimes to my detriment
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Radiotherapy was awful. I lost all sense of taste after the fifth session and developed extremely thick saliva that made it especially difficult to talk. In addition I had no energy and struggled to consume calories, with 800 being the most I could manage in a day
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The meeting with the doctor from the medical trial gave me hope that in fact I had longer than 12 months but I was and still am under no illusion that my life will cut short my the underlying condition and at some point cancer will get me again
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I have an underlying condition caused by medication where my immune system is suppressed with tacrolimus. That makes it *fat* more likely that the cancer will spread and was the basis for the terminal diagnosis
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Due to the this the tumour was allowed to grow for one and a half months longer compared to starting as originally planned
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I proceeded to tell them that they would prescribe “maximum attack” radiotherapy.. deliver a standard six week in four weeks

“Yes, I guess we could do that”

Consent papers signed and we can begin the therapy. Except there was another two week delay
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I got to the end of the appointment and introduced the topic that radiotherapy can be very effective against the tumour. The oncologist was looked shocked like someone was had been caught out. Let’s just say that was somewhat unnerving

“Well, yes.. I guess we could that too”
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The follow up appointment with my oncologist that basically put me on a path to certain death wasn’t fun. I let them again reiterate that I was terminal; that palliative care was my best option and that was that
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The initial appointment was interesting. There I learnt that actually my tumour was very treatable with radiotherapy and once completed I should come back to the experimental treatment
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I did some research and learnt about a new experimental treatment for solid cancers. It’s in injection which causes the cells to die and necrosis to happen throughout the tumour. It’s been a success in doggo’s so I guess it’ll work in pups?
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
This was a horrible thing.. I had helped someone very special with depression, struggles at University and in the process fell in love with him. I just wanted time to see him succeed, get work in a field that he studied in and be content that he could was on a good path
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Without any discussion I was put onto a palliative programme for a little radiotherapy to ease the symptoms and then, when the time was right, decline and eventually succumb to the cancer within 12 months
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM