Beginnings

I have recently been diagnosed as having a large liposarcoma in my right thigh. This blog is intended to be my personal account of my trials & tribulations while undergoing treatment for this tumour.

I have to say I am somewhat bewildered about all this and feel sort of weird writing a cancer blog. The blog will evolve in an unplanned way. My writing will be pretty much spontaneous, writing as I feel like it.

It has only been a week since I was given the results of the biopsy on my leg and informed that I have to go through radiotherapy and surgery, involving at least 4 months of treatment and rehab if everything goes well.

Cancer has been suspected by doctors in the past. I went through a period of illness in 2000/01, mainly severe infections & sepsis. My primary GP of that period was adamant that there was an underlying cause. He would tell me "A septic e. coli infection explains most of what you have been through, but not all of it. I do think there is something else.... possibly some sort of cancer trying to happen such as leukemia or lymphoma, but not showing consistently in your blood tests. The most likely cause is a small tumour somewhere.....but where to look for it?..."

Maybe this is the formerly small tumour that the GP had in mind... now very much grown.

Anyway enough of the past... the present and the future is what counts.

Rob