Life in Culebrón

You may have noticed that the tagline at the top of this blog has changed. It used to say old, fat, white haired. Through absolutely no effo...

Maggie tells me I should be explicit and say that I have been given the cancer all clear. She tells me that a sentence built into the story ...

Just a quick update on my throat cancer. For new readers, during the summer, I got to see an otorrino (Ear Nose and Throat specialist) and, ...

Done it then. The prescribed treatment for my throat cancer and inflamed lymph nodes was three sessions of chemotherapy in Elda and thirty t...

I wasn't going to do this again. Not for a while. In fact I have a very slight blog ready to go about ambulances, but a number of people...

My sister said that my nephew reads my blogs. He's just about to set off to Colorado because his new wife has a job there. So here's...

I left the last blog when I had done two or three sessions of radiotherapy down in Alicante at the private Perpetuo Socorro hospital. The ch...

So, we left the story with me in hospital, being fed on gruel and camomile tea, having had a stomach tube fitted. The hospital kicked me loo...

I t turned out to be a bit of a porky. They told me I'd be in hospital for about 24 hours to fit a peg  - a stomach feeding tube. It...

Last June, that’s June 2023, I went to the doctor and said that I had the sensation of a lump in my throat. She felt around a bit, said it w...

Seventy days ago someone from the health service rang me to tell me that my routine poo stick test showed traces of blood. I saw the doctor ...

I haven't done anything very interesting for a while but that won't stop me. I went to stand outside the Town Hall yesterday eve...

As I remember it the, "it's my arm doctor" quote was some sort of running joke. It had to be delivered with a broad Scots ac...

It must have been the price of the cat food in the Día supermarket that triggered it. I was there picking up a few essentials before going...